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Unicode Status for Myanmar

In The Unicode Standard, Myanmar script implementation is discussed in Chapter 16 Southeast Asia-I — Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and in Unicode Technical Note #11: Representing Myanmar in Unicode.

The Myanmar script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.0. Since that time the encoding has undergone a number of modifications; the script is now encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Myanmar1000..109F3.0U1000.pdf
Myanmar Extended-BA9E0..A9FF7.0UA9E0.pdf
Myanmar Extended-AAA60..AA7F5.2UAA60.pdf
Myanmar Extended-C116D0..116FF16.0U116D0.pdf

Subsequent to version 3.0, the following characters have been added to the Myanmar script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
10225.1n3277.pdf/L2/07-205
10285.1n3044.pdf/L2/06-078
102B5.1n3043.pdf/L2/06-077
1033..10345.1n3044.pdf/L2/06-078
10355.1n3115.pdf/L2/06-249
1039 (glyph change)5.1n3043.pdf/L2/06-077
103A..103F5.1n3043.pdf/L2/06-077
104E (glyph change)5.1n3043.pdf/L2/06-077
1065..10995.1n3277.pdf/L2/07-205
109E..109F5.1n3277.pdf/L2/07-205
105A..10645.1n3044.pdf/L2/06-078
109A..109D5.2n3492.pdf/L2/08-276
A9E0..A9E67.0WG2 3906, L2/10-345
A9E7..A9FE7.0WG2 N3976, L2/11-130, L2/12-012
AA60..AA7B5.2n3492.pdf/L2/08-276
AA7C..AA7F7.0WG2 N3976, L2/11-130, L2/12-012
116D0..116E316.0L2/22-046

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 1992-11-25 Unicode Technical Report #1 — Andy Daniels (TR1)

  • 1997-01-22 Proposal for encoding the Burmese script in ISO 10646 — McGregor Ross, Michael Everson (Unofficial HTML version of WG2 N1523, L2/97-039 (not online))

  • 1997-12-10 Revised Proposal for Encoding Burmese in Unicode — Lee Collins (L2/98-044)

  • 1998-03-17 Khmer and Burmese Ad-Hoc Meeting Report — SC2/WG2 (WG2 N1729 (not online), L2/98-101 (not online))

  • 1998-05-05 Part 1:Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane AMENDMENT 26: Burmese — WG2 (WG2 N1826burmese)

  • 1998-09-24 Myanmar (Burmese) Ad-hoc meeting report — WG2 (WG2 N1883, L2/98-371 (not online))

  • 1999-02-02 Proposal that Myanmar VOWEL SIGN E be stored in Phonetic Order (i.e. after its consonants) — Joe Becker (L2/99-036)

  • 2001-08-06 Serious bug in Khmer, Myanmar combining classes — Ken Whistler (L2/01-307)

  • 2001-08-08 More on L2/01-307 – Khmer and Myanmar — Martin Hosken, Ken Whistler (L2/01-308)

  • 2002-05-08 Status in Myanmar on n2033 — Takayuki K. Sato (WG2 N2430.doc, WG2 N2430r.doc, L2/02-157)

  • 2002-08-08 Myanmar Script Canonical Ordering — Martin Hosken (L2/02-283)

  • 2002-08-08 Implementing Kinzi — Martin Hosken (L2/02-284)

  • 2003-03-05 Examples of Burmese — Paul Nelson (L2/03-109)

  • 2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc, L2/04-109)

  • 2004-05-19 Proposal of Myanmar Script Extensions: Mon, Shan, and Karen (Kayin) — Myanmar N B (WG2 N2768r, L2/04-198)

  • 2004-05-19 Proposal of Myanmar Currency Sign — Myanmar N B (WG2 N2769, L2/04-199)

  • 2004-06-21 Proposal of 4 Myanmar Semivowels — Myanmar N B (WG2 N2827, L2/04-273)

  • 2004-08-04 Response to Public Review Issue #37 — Antoine Leca (L2/04-328)

  • 2005-07-28 Letter of Recommendation re Encoding of Myanmar Alphabets in Unicode — Myanmar N.B. (WG2 N2966, L2/05-216)

  • 2005-07-28 A Sgaw Karen Unicode Proposal; Extending Myanmar to Incorporate Sgaw Karen — Martin Hosken (WG2 N2083, L2/05-178)

  • 2005-07-31 Dissociating Myanmar Medials: A Proposal to Encode Separate Myanmar Medials — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3084, L2/05-184)

  • 2005-10-26 TR 29 and Myanmar/Khmer — Martin Hosken (L2/05-352)

  • 2006-03-07 Proposal to encode seven additional Myanmar characters in the UCS — Ireland (NSAI), United Kingdom (BSI), Myanmar Language Commission, Myanmar Unicode and Natural Language Processing Research Center, Myanmar Computer Federation (WG2 N3043, L2/06-077)

  • 2006-03-20 Further discussion of Myanmar medials — Michael Everson (WG2 N3029, L2/06-029)

  • 2006-03-20 Myanmar issues re WG2 N3043 (L2/06-077) — Ka’onohi Kai (L2/06-085)

  • 2006-03-24 Discussion of AA and TALL AA Disunification for Myanmar — Ken Whistler (L2/06-092)

  • 2006-03-27 Supporting Discussion for the Encoding of seven additional Myanmar Characters in the UCS — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3061, L2/06-093, L2/06-129)

  • 2006-03-27 Support for Transcoding to our Myazedi Unicode Clients:Re: N3043, Proposal to encode seven additional Myanmar characters in the UCS — Ngwe Tun (L2/06-094)

  • 2006-04-06 Concerns Regarding WG2 N3043R, Myanmar Additions to 10646 — Unicode Consortium (WG2 N3069.doc, L2/06-130)

  • 2006-04-08 Proposal for encoding Mon and S’gaw Karen characters in the UCS (WG2 N3044) — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3044, L2/06-078)

  • 2006-04-08 Response to UTC contribution N3069, “Concerns Regarding WG2 N3043R, Myanmar Additions to 10646” — Ireland, UK NB (WG2 N3079, L2/06-118)

  • 2006-04-09 Preliminary proposal for encoding Karen, Shan, and Kayah characters in the UCS — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3080, L2/06-119)

  • 2006-04-26 Myanmar Ad Hoc Report — Erkki Kolehmainen, Deborah Anderson, Michael Everson, Asmus Freytag, Lisa Moore, Thein Oo, Tseng Shih-Shyeng (Bear), Wei Lin-Mei, Ken Whistler, Zaw Htut (WG2 N3099, L2/06-140)

  • 2006-05-05 Two Issues Relating to N3044: Proposal to encode Mon and S’gaw Karen characters — Richard Wordingham (L2/06-161)

  • 2006-05-07 Non-Shan Issues Relating to N3080: Preliminary proposal for encoding Karen, Shan, and Kayah Characters — Richard Wordingham (L2/06-163)

  • 2006-05-17 Requirements leading to the characters added to the Myanmar script — Michael Everson (L2/06-213)

  • 2006-07-24 One additional Myanmar character for Mon for PDAM 3.2 — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3115, L2/06-249)

  • 2006-09-08 Proposal for encoding Myanmar characters for Karen and Kayah in the UCS — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3142, L2/06-303)

  • 2006-09-08 Proposal for encoding Myanmar characters for Shan and Palaung in the UCS — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3143, L2/06-304)

  • 2006-09-21 Response to Project Editor’s contribution N3146, “Draft disposition of comments on SC2 N3875 (PDAM text for Amendment 3.2 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)” — Ireland N.B. (WG2 N3160, L2/06-318)

  • 2006-10-28 Composed Myanmar Character — Tun Myint ( a ) Aye Min (L2/06-368)

  • 2007-08-28 Proposal for encoding additional Myanmar characters for Shan in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3277, L2/07-205)

  • 2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457, L2/08-118)

  • 2008-03-03 UTC Letter Ballot: Myanmar in Unicode 5.1 — Eric Muller (L2/08-126)

  • 2008-03-18 Results: UTC Letter Ballot: Myanmar in Unicode 5.1 — Eric Muller (L2/08-127)

  • 2008-04-09 Ordering and character properties for Myanmar Khamti Shan characters — Michael Everson (WG2 N3436, L2/08-145)

  • 2008-04-29 Proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar Blocks — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3423, L2/08-181)

  • 2008-05-02 Comments on Myanmar Unicode introduction text — Keith Stribley (L2/08-192)

  • 2008-08-04 Extended Proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar Blocks — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3492, L2/08-276)

  • 2008-11-03 Proposal to change some characters form Myanmar Unicode 5.1 — Tun Myint (L2/08-408)

  • 2009-04-09 Proposal for encoding one additional Myanmar character for Pa’o Karen in the UCS — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3594, L2/09-100)

  • 2010-09-21 Proposal for encoding seven additional Myanmar characters for Shan Pali in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 3906, L2/10-345)

  • 2010-09-23 Myanmar Character Map — Tun Myint (L2/10-355)

  • 2010-09-27 Excerpts from Myanmar Spelling Dictionary — Tun Myint (L2/10-360)

  • 2011-04-18 Proposal to change grapheme extending properties of various characters — Martin Hosken (L2/11-114)

  • 2011-05-23 Proposal to add minority characters to Myanmar script — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3976, L2/11-130, L2/12-012)

  • 2012-11-08 Adding Devanagri, Bengali and Myanmar digits to Script Extensions — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-376)

  • 2014-02-05 A bag of suggested improvements to Unicode’s provisional Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader, Behdad Esfahbod (L2/14-065)

  • 2014-05-03 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Style Letters from Myanmar — Martin Hosken (L2/14-108)

  • 2014-05-08 Improvements requested for Unicode Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-126)

  • 2014-05-16 Unicode Standard Announcement Letter — Myanmar Computer Federation (L2/14-141)

  • 2014-07-28 Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Laurentiu Iancu (L2/14-170)

  • 2015-11-02 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Letters from Myanmar (Revision 3) — Martin Hosken (L2/15-257)

  • 2015-11-03 Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti Characters — Martin Hosken (L2/15-320)

    • UTC #145 Minutes (L2/15-254) (See D.12.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-05-12 Additions to Indic Syllabic Category for Myanmar and Khmer — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/16-163)

  • 2017-08-10 About script names in the code charts — Eduardo Marin Silva (L2/17-293)

    • Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-384) (See point 1.)

    • UTC #153 Minutes (L2/17-362) (See B.14 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-07-07 Notes on Khamti — Ben Mitchell, et al (L2/20-162)

    • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 20a.)

  • 2020-07-07 Notes on alternate letterforms in Arakanese and Mon languages — Ben Mitchell, et al (L2/20-163)

    • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 20b.)

  • 2020-08-14 Request for a formal name alias for uniAA6E Khamti HHA — Ben Mitchell (L2/20-263)

    • Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-250) (See point 17.)

    • UTC #165 Minutes (L2/20-237) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-02-21 Proposal to encode numerals for Eastern Pwo Karen and Pa’O — Ben Mitchell (L2/22-046)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 11 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-07 Proposal to Add Data for Pairs of Identical sequences — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-108)

  • 2022-06-07 Proposal to Add Data for Pairs of Confusable sequences — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-107)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-14 Response to PRI 451 — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-114)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-10-17 Canonical combining class for nukta characters — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/22-250)

    • UTC #173 Minutes (L2/22-241) (See D.1.10 for decision and action items)