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Unicode Status for Khitan Ideographs

The Khitan Large (or Khitan Ideographs) script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+18E00..U+195FF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

A number of proposals for its inclusion (and also that of Khitan Small) have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 2009-04-30 Proposal to redefine the scope of Ideographic Description Sequences and to encode four additional Ideographic Description Characters — Andrew C West (WG2 N3643, L2/09-171)

  • 2010-04-15 Preliminary Proposal for Encoding Khitan Characters in UCS — China N.B. (WG2 N3820, L2/10-130)

  • 2010-09-24 Comments on Khitan proposal N3918 — Richard Cook, Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3925, L2/10-374)

  • 2010-09-30 Proposal of Encode the Khitan Characters to UCS plane — Sun Bo-jun, Jing Yongshi, Liyang (WG2 N3918, L2/10-369)

  • 2010-10-04 A Comment on the proposal to unify Khitan script and CJK Ideograph, in N3925 — suzuki toshiya (WG2 N3934, L2/10-453)

  • 2010-10-06 Khitan ad hoc report on Khitan Small Script — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3942, L2/10-400)

  • 2014-09-23 Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script in UCS — China NB (WG2 N4631, L2/14-234)

    • 2014-09-23 The table of khitan Large characters (1 of 5) — China NB (WG2 N4631 1of5)

    • 2014-09-23 The table of khitan Large characters (2 of 5) — China NB (WG2 N4631 2of5)

    • 2014-09-23 The table of khitan Large characters (3 of 5) — China NB (WG2 N4631 3of5)

    • 2014-09-23 The table of khitan Large characters (4 of 5) — China NB (WG2 N4631 4of5)

    • 2014-09-23 The table of khitan Large characters (5 of 5) — China NB (WG2 N4631 5of5)

  • 2014-09-29 Ad Hoc Reports for Tangut and Khitan Large Script — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N4642, L2/14-246))

  • 2014-10-14 Preliminary Review of Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script in UCS (N4631) — Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev (WG2 N4559, L2/14-233)

  • 2016-08-20 Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 20 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) - Ad Hoc Report #1 — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N4736, L2/16-243)

  • 2016-08-22 Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 22 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) - Ad Hoc Report #2 — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N4737, L2/16-244)