Unicode Status for Oriya (Odia
In The Unicode Standard, Odia (formerly Oriya) script implementation is discussed in Chapter 12 South and Central Asia-I — Official Scripts of India
.
The Odia script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oriya (Odia) | 0B00..0B7F | 1.0 | U0B00.pdf |
Vedic Extensions may be used with the Odia script as well as many other Indic scripts.
Subsequent to version 1.0, the following characters have been added to the Odia script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 0B35 | 4.0 | n2425.pdf/L2/02-117 |
| 0B44 | 5.1 | n3235.pdf/L2/07-095 |
| 0B62..0B63 | 5.1 | n3235.pdf/L2/07-095 |
| 0B71 | 4.0 | n2525.pdf/L2/02-425 |
| 0B72..0B77 | 6.0 | n3471.pdf/L2/08-199 |
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:
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2000-11-15 Unicode representation of Indian Scripts — M.N. Cooper (L2/00-417
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2002-03-21 Additional Characters for Indic Scripts — Rick McGowan (WG2 N2425
, L2/02-117) -
2002-11-21 On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS — Michael Everson, Anthony Stone (WG2 N2525
, (L2/02-425) -
2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc
, L2/04-109) -
2004-06-30 Proposal on Clarification and Consolidation of the Function of ZERO WIDTH JOINER in Indic Scripts — Peter Constable (L2/04-279
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2004-08-04 Response to Public Review Issue #37 — Antoine Leca (L2/04-328
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2005-01-29 Comments on PRI 59: Script Specific Danda and Double Danda — Eric Muller (L2/05-055
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2005-02-07 Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode (Unicode Conference Presentation) — Om Vikas (L2/05-063
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2006-06-17 Comments on Indic Block Descriptions — Peter Constable (L2/06-225
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2007-04-26 Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson and Peter Scharf (editors), Michel Angot, R. Chandrashekar, Malcolm Hyman, Susan Rosenfield, B. V. Venkatakrishna Sastry, Michael Witzel (WG2 N3235
, L2/07-095) -
2007-05-25 Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Peter Scharf (WG2 N3272
, L2/07-196) -
2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457
, L2/08-118) -
2008-05-08 Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3471
, L2/07-413, L2/08-199) -
2010-07-20 Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-267
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2010-08-10 Follow-up to L2/10-267 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-328
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2011-05-09 Proposal to encode 0B50 ORIYA OM — N Ravi Shanker (L2/11-258
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2011-07-28 A clear policy on encoding OM characters — Shriramana Sharma (L2/11-308
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2011-08-11 Feedback on Oriya OM — Mamata Mishra (L2/11-343
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2012-07-31 Indic Scripts in Unicode — Eric Muller (L2/12-289
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2012-10-10 Letter re Odia naming — Swaran Lata (L2/12-380
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2014-02-05 A bag of suggested improvements to Unicode’s provisional Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader, Behdad Esfahbod (L2/14-065
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2014-05-08 Improvements requested for Unicode Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-126
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2016-04-14 Please add an alias of “Odia” to sc=Orya — Markus Scherer (L2/16-078
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2017-01-23 Preliminary analysis of ZWNJ and ZWJ’s usage in Indic scripts (XLSX spreadsheet) — Liang Hai (L2/17-046
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2017-04-17 Request for editorial updates to Indic scripts — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-098
)- Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255) (See point 7.)
- Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255
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2017-12-08 Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0 — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-424
)- Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039) (See point 6b section 2.4.)
- Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039
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2018-11-18 Extending the ScriptExtensions property of Ardhavisarga for Oriya — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/18-330
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2019-01-01 Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE in the UCS — Lorna Evans (L2/19-005
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Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047
) (See point 11a.) -
UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008
) (See D.4 for decision and action items) -
Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-286
) (See point 9.) -
UTC #160 Minutes (L2/19-270
) (See D.9 for decision and action items)
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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)
- UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121
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2024-04-25 Request to encode DOT ABOVE characters for the ORIYA/ODIA script in the UCS — Lorna Priest Evans (L2/24-106
)