Unicode Status for Book Pahlavi

The Book Pahlavi script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+10BB0..U+10BDF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

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

• 1992-10-30 Pahlavi/Avestan — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

• 2000-12-21 Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode, Iranianist meeting report from Paris — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/01-007)

• 2002-12-04 Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2556, L2/02-449, L2/03-072)

• 2007-07-30 Preliminary proposal to encode the Book Pahlavi script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Roozbeh Pournader, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (WG2 N3294, L2/07-234)

• 2013-07-24 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Book Pahlavi Script in the Unicode Standard — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/13-141)

• 2014-05-09 Proposal for Encoding Book Pahlavi in the Unicode Standard — Abe Meyers (L2/14-077)

• 2018-08-26 Preliminary proposal to encode Book Pahlavi in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/18-276)

  • Recommendations to UTC #157 September 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-300) (See point 4.)

  • UTC #157 Minutes (L2/18-272) (See C.4 for decision and action items)

• 2018-11-30 A Critique of L2/18-276 — Abe Meyers (L2/18-334)

• 2020-04-28 Next steps on Book Pahlavi — Roozbeh Pournader, Liang Hai (L2/20-135)

• 2020-05-08 Response to ‘Next steps on Book Pahlavi’ (L2/20-135) — Arash Zeini (L2/20-141)

• 2020-09-07 Teeth and bellies: a proposed model for encoding Book Pahlavi — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/20-246)

  • Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-250) (See point 6.)

• 2021-04-23 Advancing the encoding model for Book Pahlavi letters — Anshuman Pandey (L2/21-090)

  • Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-073) (See point 5.)

  • UTC #167 Minutes (L2/21-067) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

• 2024-01-16 Revised proposal to encode Book Pahlavi in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/24-040)

• 2024-02-06 Feedback on Book Pahlavi proposal — Eduardo Marín Silva (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24063-pubrev.html#ID20240206154504)

  • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point A.VIII.23.)