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Unicode Status for Soyombo

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

The Soyombo script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 10.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionDocumentation
Soyombo11A50..11AAF10.0U11A50

Subsequent to version 10.0, the following characters have been added to the Soyombo script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
11A9D11.0L2/16-016

Pending indicates codepoint assignments are not final; 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:

  • 1998-08-21 Addition of Soyombo script to ISO 10646 — Mongol & Japan (WG2 N1855, L2/98-358)

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

  • 2010-10-30 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3949, L2/10-399)

  • 2010-11-11 Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-467)

  • 2011-02-05 Determining the Encoding Model for Soyombo Vowels — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3986, L2/11-054)

  • 2011-04-25 Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode Soyombo in the UCS — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4026, L2/11-125)

  • 2011-10-25 Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4142, L2/11-412)

  • 2013-04-22 Revised Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4414, L2/13-069)

  • 2013-04-25 Comments on the proposed Soyombo encoding — Shriramana Sharma (L2/13-075)

  • 2015-01-26 Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4655, L2/15-004)

  • 2015-01-26 Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts — Toshiya Suzuki, Takashi Matsukawa, Hitoshi Kuribayashi (WG2 N4653, L2/15-009)

  • 2015-02-09 Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-094)

  • 2015-10-17 Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) — Deborah Anderson (L2/15-249)

  • 2015-10-20 The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project — R.Otgonbaatar (L2/15-248)

  • 2015-10-20 Revised code chart and names list for Soyombo — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-247)

  • 2015-12-03 Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-331)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.10.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2015-12-07 Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation — SEI / Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-336)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.10.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-01-06 Proposal to encode the Soyombo mark PLUTA — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-016)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.10.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2017-07-21 Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo — Anshuman Pandey (L2/17-235)

    • Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255) (See point 18.)

    • UTC #152 Minutes (L2/17-222) (See D.5 for decision and action items)

  • 2024-08-27 On the Indic_Syllabic_Category of vowel carriers — Robin Leroy (L2/24-203)

    • Recommendations to UTC #181 November 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-228) (See point 4.6.)

    • UTC #181 Minutes (L2/24-221) (See D.1 4.6 for decision and action items)

  • 2025-04-04 Indic Categories for Zanabazar and Soyombo RAs — Jan Kučera, Liang Hai, Roozbeh Pournader (L2/25-119)

    • Recommendations to UTC #183 April 2025 on Script Proposals (L2/25-091) (See point 3.2.)

    • UTC #183 Minutes (L2/25-085) (See D.1 3.2 for decision and action items)