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Unicode Status for Zanabazar Square

In The Unicode Standard, Zanabazar Square script implementation is discussed in Chapter 14 South and Central Asia-III: Ancient Scripts.

The Zanabazar Square script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 10.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionDocumentation
Zanabazar Square11A00..11A4F10.0U11A00

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

  • 2010-10-25 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Xawtaa Dorboljin Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3956, L2/10-411)

  • 2010-11-11 Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-467)

  • 2011-05-03 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4041, L2/11-162)

  • 2011-10-24 Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4160, L2/11-379)

  • 2013-04-22 Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4413, L2/13-068)

  • 2013-04-28 Vocalic R etc in Mongolian Square — Shriramana Sharma (L2/13-085)

  • 2013-10-27 Revised Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4471, L2/13-198)

  • 2014-01-22 Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646 (supersedes / replaces L2/13-198) — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4541, L2/14-024)

  • 2014-01-25 Differences between L2/14‐024 Zanabazar Script proposal and L2/13‐198 Mongolian Square proposal — Deborah Anderson (L2/14-032)

  • 2014-01-26 Comments on the Zanabazar Square proposal — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4527, L2/14-033)

  • 2014-09-02 Comment on Zanabazar Square script in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM2 — Suzuki Toshiya (WG2 N4613)

  • 2015-01-26 Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts — Toshiya Suzuki, Takashi Matsukawa, Hitoshi Kuribayashi (WG2 N4653, L2/15-009)

  • 2015-02-09 Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-094)

  • 2015-10-17 Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) — Deborah Anderson (L2/15-249)

  • 2015-10-20 The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project — R.Otgonbaatar, S. Demberel (L2/15-248)

  • 2015-10-20 Revised code chart and names list for Zanabazar Square — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-246)

  • 2015-12-03 Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script (replaces L2/14-004) — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-337)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.9.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2015-12-07 Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation — SEI / Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-336)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.10.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2015-12-30 Proposal to encode additional head marks for Zanabazar Square — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-341)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.9.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2015-12-30 Proposal to Encode a Subjoiner for Zanabazar Square — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-342)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.9.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2018-06-21 Proposal to encode two additional Zanabazar Square letters — Andrew West (WG2 N4945R, L2/18-132)

    • Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-168) (See point 2c and 18.)

    • UTC #155 Minutes (L2/18-115) (See C.14 for decision and action items)

    • Recommendations to UTC #156 July 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-241) (See point 14.)

    • UTC #156 Minutes (L2/18-183) (See C.14 for decision and action items)

  • 2023-10-12 Issues on Zanabazar Cluster-final Characters — CheonHyeong Sim (L2/24-094)

    • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point B.29.)

  • 2024-08-27 On the Indic_Syllabic_Category of vowel carriers — Robin Leroy (L2/24-203)

    • Recommendations to UTC #181 November 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-228) (See point 4.6.)

    • UTC #181 Minutes (L2/24-221) (See D.1 4.6 for decision and action items)

  • 2025-04-04 Indic Categories for Zanabazar and Soyombo RAs — Jan Kučera, Liang Hai, Roozbeh Pournader (L2/25-119)

    • Recommendations to UTC #183 April 2025 on Script Proposals (L2/25-091) (See point 3.2.)

    • UTC #183 Minutes (L2/25-085) (See D.1 3.2 for decision and action items)