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Unicode Status for Rejang

In The Unicode Standard, Rejang script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines and in UTN 35: Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions.

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

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
RejangA930..A95F5.1UA930.pdf

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

  • 2006-01-11 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Rejang script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3023, L2/06-003)

  • 2006-04-24 Proposal for encoding the Rejang script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3096, L2/06-139)

  • 2011-03-03 Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions not yet encoded or proposed for encoding in Unicode — Christopher Miller (L2/11-091)

  • 2018-03-26 Preliminary proposal to encode Rejang Numbers in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/18-081)

    • Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-168) (See point 27.)

  • 2021-02-02 Towards an Encoding for Surat Ulu — M. Mahali Syarifuddin (L2/21-116)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 17.)

    • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)