Vedic Extensions is a Unicode block containing characters for representing tones and other vedic symbols in Devanagari and other Indic scripts. Related symbols (also used in many scripts to represent vedic accents) are defined in two other blocks: Devanagari (U+0900–U+097F) and Devanagari Extended (U+A8E0–U+A8FF).
| Vedic Extensions | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1CD0..U+1CFF (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common (16 char.) Inherited (27 char.) |
| Symbol sets | Vedic tone marks and signs |
| Assigned | 43 code points |
| Unused | 5 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.2 (2009) | 35 (+35) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 39 (+4) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 41 (+2) |
| 10.0 (2017) | 42 (+1) |
| 12.0 (2019) | 43 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
edit| Vedic Extensions[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1CDx | ᳐ | ᳑ | ᳒ | ᳓ | ᳔ | ᳕ | ᳖ | ᳗ | ᳘ | ᳙ | ᳚ | ᳛ | ᳜ | ᳝ | ᳞ | ᳟ |
| U+1CEx | ᳠ | ᳡ | ᳢ | ᳣ | ᳤ | ᳥ | ᳦ | ᳧ | ᳨ | ᳩ | ᳪ | ᳫ | ᳬ | ᳭ | ᳮ | ᳯ |
| U+1CFx | ᳰ | ᳱ | ᳲ | ᳳ | ᳴ | ᳵ | ᳶ | ᳷ | ᳸ | ᳹ | ᳺ | |||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Vedic Extensions block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | U+1CD0..1CF2 | 35 | L2/00-144 | Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Vedic Accents (untitled, undated early draft) | |
| L2/00-178 | Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Encoding Vedic Accents | ||||
| L2/00-155 | Moore, Lisa (2000-05-31), Comments on Encoding Vedic Accents Proposal | ||||
| L2/03-066 | New Proposal for Vedic Characters and Symbols, 2003-02-26 | ||||
| L2/03-067 | Joshi, R. K. (2003-02-27), Vedic Code Set; a draft | ||||
| L2/04-398 | Proposal to encode Vedic accents, etc., 2004-11-12 | ||||
| L2/05-063 | Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Devanagari", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode | ||||
| L2/05-070 | McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report | ||||
| L2/05-026 | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes | ||||
| L2/05-228 | Muller, Eric (2005-08-11), Analysis of a TDIL proposal for Vedic | ||||
| L2/06-185 | Proposal for Encoding of Vedic Characters & Symbols in Unicode, 2006-05-10 | ||||
| L2/06-384 | Lata, Swaran (2006-10-25), Letter from T. N. Dharmadhikari in support of Vedic repertoire | ||||
| L2/07-060 | Scharf, Peter (2007-02-02), Vedic Unicode Workshop Report | ||||
| L2/07-095R | N3235R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/07-230 | N3290 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-07-26), Revised proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/07-254 | Bhushan, E. K. Bharat (2007-08-01), Unicode for Vedic Sanskrit (letter to Mark Davis) | ||||
| L2/07-262 | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-07), Outline of the development of WG2/n3290 = L2/07-230 | ||||
| L2/07-271 | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-08), Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230) | ||||
| L2/07-272 | Muller, Eric (2007-08-10), "11", Report of the South Asia subcommittee | ||||
| L2/07-396 | Joshi, R. K.; Irani, Alka (2007-10-10), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Character and Symbols in Unicode | ||||
| L2/07-386 | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Comments on Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230) | ||||
| L2/07-388 | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Following observations have been made with reference to the document No. L2/07-095 dated: 2007-04-13 | ||||
| L2/07-343 | N3366 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-10-18), Proposal to encode 55 characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/07-394 | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Significant differences between L2/07-230 and L2/07-343 | ||||
| L2/07-395 | Joshi, R. K.; et al. (2007-10-18), Request for feedback on draft proposal for encoding Vaidika characters and symbols in Unicode | ||||
| L2/07-397 | Joshi, R. K.; et al. (2007-10-18), Vaidika Vowels and Consonants | ||||
| L2/07-400 | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Comments on R. K. Joshi's documents L2/07-386 and L2/07-388 | ||||
| L2/07-401 | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Equivalences between L2/07-396 and L2/07-343 | ||||
| L2/07-345 | Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), "Consensus 113-C19", UTC #113 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-035 | Scharf, Peter; Rosenfield, Susan J. (2008-01-22), Vedic Revisions 2008 Jan 14, Revisions to N3366 = L2/07-343 | ||||
| L2/08-042 | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-23), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Characters & Symbols in Unicode | ||||
| L2/08-043 | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-28), Vaidika Extensions A & B (Vedic evidence to accompany L2/08-042) | ||||
| L2/08-092 | N3385 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-01-31), Comparison between two Vedic proposals of January 2008 | |||
| L2/08-097 | Amendments to L2/08-042, L2/08-043, 2008-01-31 | ||||
| L2/08-050R | N3383R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-03-06), Summary proposal to encode characters for Vedic in the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/08-096 | Joshi, R. K. (2008-02-02), Comparison of L2/08-042 and L2/08-050 | ||||
| L2/08-110 | Muller, Eric (2008-02-08), South Asia Subcommittee Report | ||||
| L2/08-003 | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Vedic", UTC #114 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-137 | Bhushan, E. K. Bharat (2008-04-09), Letter re Vedic Sanskrit Proposal | ||||
| L2/08-176 | N3456R | Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-18), Summary of Vedic Characters based on N3385, N3383R, and the Unicode Pipeline | |||
| L2/08-196 | Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS, 2008-05-05 | ||||
| L2/08-216 | Scharf, Peter (2008-05-08), Comments on L2/08-196 regarding the encoding of Sanskrit and Vedic | ||||
| L2/08-214 | Scharf, Peter; Rosenfield, Susan (2008-05-12), Proposal to encode Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Mid-char Svarita as 1CD4 in the BMP of the UCS | ||||
| L2/08-218 | Muller, Eric (2008-05-12), "1.2, 1.3, 1.10, 1.11", South Asia Subcommittee Report - Monday May 12, 2008 | ||||
| L2/08-219 | Scharf, Peter; Chandrashekar, R. (2008-05-13), Devanagari examples of Vedic tone Yajurvedic Mid-char Svarita | ||||
| L2/08-294 | Scharf, Peter (2008-08-06), Placement of characters in Vedic, Devanagari, and Devanagari Extended blocks | ||||
| L2/08-317 | Muller, Eric (2008-08-11), "1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7", South Asia Subcommittee Report | ||||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | |||
| L2/08-327 | Jain, Manoj (2008-08-14), The Vedic Language | ||||
| L2/08-273R3 | N3488R3 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-08-21), Proposal to encode two characters for Vedic in the UCS | |||
| L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Vedic", UTC #115 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.03", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
| L2/09-067 | Lata, Swaran (2009-01-28), Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS | ||||
| L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 | |||
| L2/09-104 | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+1CD4] | ||||
| L2/09-298 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-13), Request change name of VEDIC SIGN NIHSHVASA | ||||
| L2/11-007 | Sharma, Shriramana (2011-01-15), Request to annotate 1CD8 VEDIC TONE CANDRA BELOW | ||||
| L2/11-042 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-02-02), "1. Vedic", Review of Indic related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/17-424 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0 | ||||
| L2/18-039 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-007 | Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039. | ||||
| L2/18-075 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-03-06), Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas | ||||
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "7. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.11 Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-330 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-11-18), Extending the ScriptExtensions property of Ardhavisarga for Oriya | ||||
| L2/19-008 | Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "B.14.8 Extending the ScriptExtensions property of Ardhavisarga for Oriya", UTC #158 Minutes | ||||
| 6.1 | U+1CF3 | 1 | L2/03-102 | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts | |
| L2/03-101.2 | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Devanagari document], 2003-03-04 | ||||
| L2/09-343 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-09), Request for encoding 1CF3 ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA | ||||
| L2/09-404 | Scharf, Peter (2009-11-02), Feedback on various documents on Vedic | ||||
| L2/10-167 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "2", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/10-108 | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C30", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Accept U+1CF3 VEDIC SIGN ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA with general category "Mc" for encoding in a future version of the standard. | ||||
| L2/10-234 | N3861 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-09), Request for encoding 1CF3 VEDIC SIGN ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA | |||
| L2/10-299R | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Vedic Rotated Ardhavisarga", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/18-075 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-03-06), Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas | ||||
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "7. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.11 Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| U+1CF4 | 1 | L2/09-003R | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "E.4", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes | ||
| L2/09-344[b] | N3844 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-11), Request for encoding 1CF4 VEDIC TONE CANDRA ABOVE | |||
| L2/10-167 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "3", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/10-108 | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C31", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/17-424 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0 | ||||
| L2/18-039 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-007 | Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039. | ||||
| U+1CF5..1CF6 | 2 | L2/10-257 | N3881 | Anderson, Deborah; Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-26), Request to add two characters to the Vedic Extensions block | |
| L2/10-299R | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Two Vedic characters", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.4", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| L2/09-342[b] | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/17-095 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-04-12), Request to change the glyphs of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya | ||||
| L2/17-255 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "15. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-222 | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #152 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-319 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-09-12), Reconsidering the glyph change of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya | ||||
| L2/17-384 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), "9. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "D.10 Reconsidering the glyph change of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1CF8..1CF9 | 2 | L2/11-267R | N4134 | Sharma, Shriramana (2011-07-07), Proposal to encode svara markers for the Jaiminiya Archika |
| L2/11-298 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "1. Vedic", South Asian subcommittee report | ||||
| L2/11-326 | Palaniappan, S. (2011-08-04), Comment on UTC document L2/11-186 | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.10", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes | ||||
| N4253 (pdf, doc) | "M59.16b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 | ||||
| 10.0 | U+1CF7 | 1 | L2/15-204 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "1. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals | |
| L2/15-160R | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 1CF7 VEDIC SIGN ATIKRAMA | ||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.3.1", UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 12.0 | U+1CFA | 1 | L2/17-117 | N4820 | Pandey, Anshuman (2017-04-25), Proposal to encode a nasal character in Vedic Extensions (revised) |
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "8. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.9.3", UTC #151 Minutes | ||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.