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Unicode Status for Siddham

In The Unicode Standard, Siddham script implementation is discussed in Chapter 15: South and Central Asia-IV — Other Historic Scripts.

The Siddham script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 7.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode chart
Siddham11580..115FF7.0U11580.pdf

Subsequent to version 7.0, the following characters have been added to the script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
115CA..115D78.0WG2 N4336, L2/12-323
115D8..115DB8.0WG2 N4407, L2/13-110
115DC..115DD8.0WG2 N4407, L2/13-110,WG2 N4557

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:

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

  • 1999-02-11 Exploratory code chart — Michael Everson (L2/99-065)

  • 2012-05-03 Preliminary Proposal to Encode Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4185, L2/12-011)

  • 2012-05-07 GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents — Swaran Lata (L2/12-184)

  • 2012-06-28 Comments on naming the “Siddham” encoding — Vinodh Rajan, Shriramana Sharma (L2/12-221)

  • 2012-07-11 Comments on the name of the “Siddham” script (L2/12‐011R = N4185) — Stefan Baums, Andrew Glass (L2/12-237)

  • 2012-07-25 Recommendation against encoding ornamental punctuation marks for Siddham — Shriramana Sharma (L2/12-274)

  • 2012-07-25 Comments of support for the adoption of “Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646” (L2/12-234=N4294) — Rev. Eijun Eidson, Rev. Shoken Harada-Eidson (L2/12-279)

  • 2012-07-25 Comments of support for the adoption of “Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646” — Honkō Yoritomi (L2/12-281)

  • 2012-07-26 GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC — Swaran Lata (L2/12-277)

  • 2012-08-01 Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4294, L2/12-234)

  • 2012-09-30 Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4336, L2/12-323)

  • 2012-10-20 Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294) Comments by Suzuki Toshiya, Hiroshima University, Japan — Rev. Eijun (Bill) Eidson (WG2 N4369)

  • 2012-10-24 Additional Information on Siddham Section Marks (N4336) — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N4378, L2/12-372)

  • 2012-11-02 Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294) — Suzuki Toshiya (WG2 N4361, L2/12-367)

  • 2013-01-28 Additional expert feedback on Siddham Section marks — Bill Eidsun (WG2 N4391, L2/13-033)

  • 2013-06-11 Name changes for Siddham Section marks — Deborah Anderson, Anshuman Pandey, Michael Everson, Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4457, L2/13-156)

  • 2013-06-11 Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script — Taichi KAWABATA, Toshiya SUZUKI, Kiyonori NAGASAKI, Masahiro SHIMODA (WG2 N4407, L2/13-110)

  • 2013-06-12 Siddham ad hoc report — Tero Aalto (WG2 N4460)

  • 2013-06-15 Proposal to Encode a Set of Digits for Siddham — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4467, L2/13-135)

  • 2013-06-15 Additional Siddham Variants — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4468, L2/13-136)

  • 2013-10-10 Comments on N4407R Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script — Andrew Glass (WG2 N4486, L2/13-189)

  • 2013-10-27 A Practical Approach to Encoding Siddham Variants — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4490, L2/13-195)

  • 2013-10-30 Response to L2/13-195 on Siddham — Shriramana Sharma (L2/13-208)

  • 2013-12-04 2013-11-22 Siddham Script (梵字) Meeting @ Tokyo, JAPAN, Earth — Ken Lunde (WG2 N4523, L2/13-233)

  • 2014-02-03 Supplementary Documents for Proposal of Variants for Siddham Script — Deborah Anderson, Lee Collins, Bill Eidson, Andrew Glass, Shoken HARADA, Taichi KAWABATA, Ken Lunde, Koju MOTOYAMA, Kiyonori NAGASAKI, Anshuman Pandey, Michel Suignard, Toshiya SUZUKI, Taro YAMAMOTO (L2/14-055)

  • 2014-02-04 Concerns about encoding variants of matras in Siddham — Andrew Glass (L2/14-062)

  • 2014-02-24 Siddham Ad Hoc Report — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N4560, L2/14-074)

  • 2014-02-24 Brief Summary of the Discussion about Shape-Based Separation of Siddham Vowel Sign U/UU — suzuki toshiya (WG2 N4557)