Tirhuta (Unicode block)
Tirhuta is a Unicode block containing characters for Brahmi-derived Tirhuta script which was the primary writing system for Maithili in Bihar, India and Madhesh, Nepal until the 20th century.[3]
| Tirhuta | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11480..U+114DF (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Tirhuta |
| Major alphabets | Maithili |
| Assigned | 82 code points |
| Unused | 14 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 (2014) | 82 (+82) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
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HistoryEdit
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tirhuta block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+11480..114C7, 114D0..114D9 | 82 | L2/06-226 | Pandey, Anshuman (2006-06-21), Request to Allocate the Maithili Script in the Unicode Roadmap | |
| L2/09-329 | N3765 | Pandey, Anshuman (2009-09-30), Towards an Encoding for the Maithili Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/11-175R | N4035 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-05), Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.9", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C35", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | "11.1.1 Tirhuta Script (was Maithili)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-05). "N4035: Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.