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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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 |
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
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-1993 Exploratory Proposal for Maldivian (Dihevi) — Rick McGowan (TR3-2
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1997-05-30 Thaana proposal — Jenkins/Everson (L2/97-197 (not online))
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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))
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1998-05-05 Part 1:Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane AMENDMENT 24: Thaana — WG2 (WG2 N1824.doc
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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
)