Unicode Status for Makasar
In The Unicode Standard, Makasar (also called Old Makassarese or Bird script) script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines
and in UTN 35: Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions.
The Makasar script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 11.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makasar | 11EE0..11EFF | 11.0 | U11EE0.pdf |
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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2015-06-24 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Makassarese Bird Script in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-100
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2015-07-18 Proposal to Encode the Old Makassarese Script in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-179
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2015-11-02 Proposal to encode the Makasar script in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-233
)- UTC #145 Minutes (L2/15-254) (See D.4 for decision and action items)
- UTC #145 Minutes (L2/15-254
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2022-04-15 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries (revised) — Norbert Lindenberg, et al (L2/22-080
)