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Unicode Status for Tirhuta

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

The Tirhuta script (formerly called Maithili) was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 7.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode chart
Tirhuta11480..114DF7.0U11480.pdf

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

  • 2005-02-07 Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode (Unicode Conference Presentation) — Om Vikas (2/05-063)

  • 2006-06-21 Request to Allocate the Maithili Script in the Unicode Roadmap — Anshuman Pandey (L2/06-226)

  • 2007-05-15 Proposal to Encode North Indian Accounting Signs in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3312, L2/07-139)

  • 2007-07-31 Towards an Encoding for North Indic Number Forms in the UCS — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3334, L2/07-238)

  • 2007-10-07 Proposal to Encode North Indic Number Forms in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3367, L2/07-354)

  • 2007-10-14 Changes in L2/07-354 North Indic Number Forms (vs. L2/07-139) — Deborah Anderson (L2/07-390)

  • 2009-09-30 Towards an Encoding for the Maithili Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N2765, L2/09-329)

  • 2011-05-05 Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4035, L2/11-175)

  • 2017-04-17 Request for editorial updates to Indic scripts — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-098)

    • Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255) (See point 7.)

  • 2017-12-08 Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0 — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-424)

    • Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039) (See point 6b section 2.2.)