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Unicode Status for Ol Chiki

In The Unicode Standard, Ol Chiki script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts.

The Ol Chiki script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Ol’ Chiki1C50..1C7F5.1U1C50.pdf

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

  • 1999-01-29 Proposal for encoding the Ol Cemet’ script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1956, WG2 N1956_ol_cemet, L2/99-060)

  • 2002-11-03 Revised proposal for encoding the Ol Chiki script in the UCS — Michael Everson, R.C. Hansdah, N. C. Murmu (WG2 N2505, L2/02-422)

  • 2002-11-30 The need and practicalities to encode the ‘Roman Script Santali’ In the universal character set – a protest against efforts to encode the ‘Ol Chiki’ in the universal character set — Divyendu Tudu Raska, Archer Anthony Marandi (WG2 N2561, L2/02-443)

  • 2002-12-03 Response to Raska & Mirandi (L2/02-443) — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N2562.txt, L2/02-453)

  • 2002-12-09 Comments on Ol Chiki/Summary of Report from West Bengal — Deborah Anderson (L2/02-456)

  • 2002-12-16 Letter to Deborah Anderson re Ol Chiki — Divyendu Tudu Raska (L2/03-008)

  • 2002-12-19 General protest against hindering of OL CHIKI — Jyotsna Saren (L2/03-007)

  • 2003-02-23 Ol Chiki Correspondence Summary — Deborah Anderson (L2/03-062)

  • 2005-02-07 Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode (Unicode Conference Presentation) — Om Vikas (L2/05-063)

  • 2005-09-21 Final proposal to encode the Ol Chiki script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2984, L2/05-243)

  • 2006-04-10 Support for Ol Chiki (N2984R=L2/05-243R) — Deborah Anderson (L2/06-131)

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