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Unicode Status for Syloti Nagri

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

The Syloti Nagri script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Syloti NagriA800..A82F4.1UA800

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

  • 2002-11-01 Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP — Peter Constable, James Lloyd-Williams, Sue Lloyd-Williams, Advocate Shamsul Islam Chowdhury, Professor Asaddar Ali, Mohammed Sadique, Matiar Rahman Chowdhury (L2/02-387)

  • 2002-11-01 Documentation in support of proposal for encoding Syloti Nagri — James Lloyd-Williams, Sue Lloyd-Williams, Peter Constable (WG2 N2592, L2/02-388)

  • 2003-05-05 Alternate Encoding Models for Syloti Nagri — Peter Constable (L2/03-146)

  • 2003-06-12 Revised Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP — Peter Constable, James Lloyd-Williams, Sue Lloyd-Williams, Advocate Shamsul Islam Chowdhury, Professor Asaddar Ali, Mohammed Sadique, Matiar Rahman Chowdhury (WG2 N2591, L2/03-151)

  • 2003-08-13 Introduction to the Syloti Nagri Script — Daniel Kai (L2/03-257)

  • 2003-08-13 Lepcha, Limbu, Syloti, Saurashtra, Tai Le and Bugis Proposals — Daniel Kai (L2/03-253)

  • 2005-05-07 Encoding Model for Syloti Nagri Conjoining Behaviour — Peter Constable (L2/05-130)

  • 2005-10-19 General category and bidi property for some Indic characters — Asmus Freytag (L2/05-304)

  • 2005-10-24 Comments on 5.0 properties, and property consistency, for some Indic characters (introduced before 5.0) — Kent Karlsson (L2/05-316)

  • 2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457, L2/08-118)

  • 2017-11-29 Encoding model to represent conjuncts in Syloti Nagri — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-418)

    • Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039) (See point 18.)

    • UTC #155 Minutes (L2/18-115) (See B.11.19.1.2 for decision and action items)

    • Recommendations to UTC #156 July 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-241) (See point 28.)

    • UTC #156 Minutes (L2/18-183) (See D.3 for decision and action items)

    • Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-168) (See point 32.)

  • 2018-07-27 Syloti Nagri feedback — Srinidhi A. (L2/18-259)

    • Recommendations to UTC #157 September 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-300) (See point 6.)

    • UTC #157 Minutes (L2/18-272) (See D.3 for decision and action items)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See D.3.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-01-07 Syloti Nagri feedback on L2/18-259 — Lorna Evans, Steve Smith, Sue Lloyd-Williams (L2/19-023)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 12.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See D.3.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-01-12 Proposal to encode SYLOTI NAGRI SIGN ALTERNATE HASANTA — Lorna Evans (L2/19-024)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 12.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See D.3.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-06-09 Proposal to Encode Syloti Nagri Sign Candrabindu — Biswajit Mandal (L2/21-138)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 12a.)

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

  • 2021-06-24 Proposal to Encode the Sylheti Nagri Numerals in the UCS — Harris Mowbray (L2/21-140)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 12b.)

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

  • 2021-09-04 PROPOSAL TO ENCODE SYLOTI NAGRI NUMERALS — Biswajit Mandal, Harris Mowbray (L2/21-187)

    • Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-174) (See point 10.)

  • 2022-07-12 PROPOSAL TO ENCODE SYLOTI NAGRI NUMERALS — Biswajit Mandal (L2/22-212)

    • Recommendations to UTC #173 November 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-248) (See point B 22.)

  • 2022-10-02 Supportive letter for Syloti Numerals — Md Islam (L2/22-225)

  • 2022-10-27 Comments on Public Review Issues (July 11 - October 27, 2022) — Rick McGowan (L2/22-243)

    • Recommendations to UTC #173 November 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-248) (See point A 10.)

    • UTC #173 Minutes (L2/22-241) (See D.1.12 for decision and action items)