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Unicode Status for Sundanese

In The Unicode Standard, Sundanese script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines.

The Sundanese script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.1. The script is now encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Sundanese1B80..1BBF5.1U1B80.pdf
Sundanese Supplement1CC0..1CCF6.1U1CC0.pdf

Subsequent to version 5.1, the following characters have been added to the Sundanese script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
1BAB..1BAD6.1n3666.pdf/L2/09-251
1BBA..1BAF6.1n3666.pdf/L2/09-251
1CC0..1CC76.1n3666.pdf/L2/09-251

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:

  • 2006-01-09 Proposal for encoding the Sundanese script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3022, L2/06-002)

  • 2009-05-05 Preliminary proposal for encoding additional Sundanese characters for Old Sundanese in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3648, L2/09-190)

  • 2009-09-05 Proposal for encoding additional Sundanese characters for Old Sundanese in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3666, L2/09-251)

  • 2010-04-23 Correction to 3 character names in the Sundanese Supplement block — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3836, L2/10-143)

  • 2014-01-27 Fixing the properties of two Sundanese characters — Andrew C West (L2/14-034)

  • 2020-01-13 Proposal to synchronize seven glyphs in the Code Charts — Marcel Schneider (L2/20-012)

    • Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-046) (See point 13b.)

    • UTC #162 Minutes (L2/20-015) (See B.10.17.1.7 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-06-05 Syllabic category of Balinese Surang, Javanese Layar, and Sundanese Panglayar — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah, Norbert Lindenberg (L2/20-150)

    • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 19.)

    • UTC #164 Minutes (L2/20-172) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-09-28 Wrong Identities of Three Historical Sundanese Character — Ilham Nurwansah ( L2/21-221)

    • Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-174) (See point 13.)

    • UTC #169 Minutes (L2/21-167) (See B.1 Section 13 for decision and action items)