Unicode Status for Thaana
In The Unicode Standard, Thaana Script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13 South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts
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Blocks
Section titled “Blocks”Thaana script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.0.
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thaana | 0780..07BF | 3.0 | U0780.pdf |
Characters
Section titled “Characters”Subsequent to version 3.0, the following characters have been added to the Thaana script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 07B1 | 3.2 | WG2 N2264.doc/L2/00-328 |
Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals
Proposals and documents
Section titled “Proposals and documents”A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
- 1992-1993 Exploratory Proposal for Maldivian (Dihevi) — Rick McGowan (TR3-2)
- 1997-05-30 Thaana proposal — Jenkins/Everson (L2/97-197 (not online))
- 1997-05-30 Proposal for encoding the Thaana script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1519 (unofficial HTML version of a document submitted to WG2), L2/97-036 (not online))
- 1998-03-10 Revised proposal for encoding the Thaana script in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1699 (not online), L2/98-161 (not online))
- 1998-05-05 Part 1:Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane AMENDMENT 24: Thaana — WG2 (WG2 N1824.doc)
- 2000-04-07 Proposal to add characters for use with Thaana Script (Divehi language) — Paul Nelson, Paul Beam, Mohamed Abdul Gadir (L2/00-120 (also references glyph shape in WG2 N2263 page 8))
- 2000-09-15 Proposal for Encoding Thaana Letter Naa in the BMP (summary form) — Ken Whistler (WG2 N2264, L2/00-328)
- 2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377)