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Unicode Status for Phags-pa

In The Unicode Standard, Phags-pa script implementation is discussed in Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III — Ancient Scripts.

The Phags-pa script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Phags-paA840..A87F5.0UA840.pdf

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

  • 1992-10-30 ‘Phags-pa — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 2000-01-06 Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts) — Takayuki K. Sato (WG2 N2163, L2/00-055)

  • 2003-07-10 Email on ‘Phags-pa, relayed from William H. Baxter — Richard S Cook (L2/03-224)

  • 2003-07-26 Letter in support of Phags-pa encoding — Quejingzhabu & West (L2/03-246)

  • 2003-08-19 E-mail questions and answers on Phags-pa encoding — Christopher John Fynn, Andrew C. West (L2/03-269)

  • 2003-09-18 Proposal to encode the Phags-pa script — Andrew C West (WG2 N2622, L2/03-229)

  • 2003-10-20 Principles on encoding Phags-pa script — China N.B. (WG2 N2666.doc, L2/03-366)

  • 2003-10-22 Response to N2666 (Principles on encoding Phags-pa script) — Andrew C West (L2/03-374)

  • 2004-01-22 Open Issues on Phags-pa Encoding — Peter Constable (WG2 2912)

  • 2004-02-03 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3696 : Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 1 (Phags-pa, p. 4) — SC 2 Secretariat (WG2 N2706)

  • 2004-03-10 Response to Comments on Phags-pa Proposal in N2706 — Andrew C West (WG2 N2719, L2/04-112)

  • 2004-04-02 HPhags-pa script encoding — China N.B. (WG2 N2745, L2/04-134)

  • 2004-06-01 Comments on Chinese-Mongolian joint proposal to encode the HPhags-pa script (N2745) — Andrew C West (WG2 N2771, L2/04-174)

  • 2004-06-22 Consensus on the encoding of the Phags-pa script in the PDAM code chart — WG2 ad hoc (Chen Zhuang, Jia La Sen, He Xi Ge Du Ren, Domi Tumurtogoo, Michael Everson, Sekiguchi, Peter Constable, Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag) (WG2 N2829, L2/04-275)

  • 2004-10-25 Summary of the revised user’s agreement related to Phags-pa script — China N.B. (WG2 N2870, L2/04-414)

  • 2004-11-17 Proposal to encode the Phags-Pa script — China N.B. (WG2 N2869, L2/04-412)

  • 2004-11-17 Cover letter to Updated proposal to encode the Phags-pa Script — G. Battsengel (WG2 N2869c.doc, L2/04-413)

  • 2004-11-17 Some problems on the encoding of Phags-pa script — China N.B. (WG2 N2871, L2/04-415)

  • 2005-01-25 Consensus on Encoding Phags-pa Script — WG2 ad hoc (WG2 N2922.doc, L2/05-036)

  • 2005-08-05 A User’s Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script (WG2 N2964) — China N.B. (WG2 N2964, L2/05-219)

  • 2005-08-17 Glyph Forms for PHAGS-PA LETTER YA and PHAGS-PA LETTER ALTERNATE YA — Andrew C West (WG2 N2972, L2/05-255)

  • 2005-09-01 Phags-pa Glyphs (WG2 N2979) — Andrew C West (WG2 N2979, L2/05-257)

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

  • 2009-04-04 Proposal to encode a Middle Dot letter for Phags-pa transliteration — Andrew C West (WG2 N3567, L2/09-031)

  • 2009-08-05 On the proposed U+A78F LATIN LETTER MIDDLE DOT (L2/09-031R = N3567) — Deborah Anderson (L2/09-278)

  • 2009-10-05 Rationale for Encoding Latin Letter Middle Dot — Andrew C West (WG2 N3694, L2/09-332)

  • 2009-10-21 Comments on N3694 “Rationale for encoding LATIN LETTER MIDDLE DOT” — Deborah Anderson (L2/09-392)

  • 2010-04-07 On the proposed U+A78F LATIN LETTER MIDDLE DOT (L2/09-031R = N3567) — Hans-Jörg Bibiko (WG2 N3812, L2/10-118)

  • 2010-04-16 Latin letter middle dot — Nathan Hill (L2/10-124)

  • 2012-09-21 Examples of Collation Tailoring for U+00B7 — Ken Whistler (WG2 N4339, WG2 N4339.doc)

  • 2012-09-28 Comments in Response to Irish Comments on Middle Dot — Ken Whistler (WG2 N4340, WG2 N4340.doc)

  • 2012-11-05 Mongolian and ‘Phags-Pa Shaping — Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-360)

  • 2013-05-27 Presentation of vertical scripts — WG2 Project Editor (WG2 N4435, L2/13-146)

  • 2018-08-29 A Glyph Error of ‘Phags-pa Alternate YA (U+A86D) — Lo Dyi-Yuaan (L2/18-278)

    • UTC #157 Minutes (L2/18-272) (See C.5.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2018-08-30 Discussion of ‘Glyph Error of ‘Phags-pa Alternate YA’ — Andrew West (WG2 N5012, L2/18-280)

    • UTC #157 Minutes (L2/18-272) (See C.5.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-07-20 Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 28.)