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Unicode Status for Tagbanwa

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

The Tagbanwa script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.2. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Tagbanwa1760..177F3.2U1760.pdf

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

  • 1992-10-29 Tagalog and Mangyan (Buhid) — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 1998-05-25 Proposal for encoding the Philippine script in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1755, L2/98-217)

  • 1998-11-23 Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1933, L2/98-397, L2/99-014)

  • 2000-02-22 Philippino characters (status report) — Takayuki K. Sato (WG2 N2194.doc, L2/00-097)

  • 2000-10-16 New draft for Philippine script with block introduction — Michael Everson (L2/00-357)

  • 2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc, L2/04-109)

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

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