Kannada (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Kannada

Range| U+0C80..U+0CFF
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Kannada
Major alphabets| Kannada
Tulu
Assigned| 89 code points
Unused| 39 reserved code points
Source standards| ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0| 80 (+80)
4.0| 82 (+2)
5.0| 86 (+4)
7.0| 87 (+1)
9.0| 88 (+1)
11.0| 89 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

## Block

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kannada block:

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | UTC/1991-056 |  |  | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057 |  |  | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048B |  |  | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
| L2/01-303 |  | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
| L2/01-304 |  |  Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
| L2/01-305 |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
| L2/01-430R |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
| L2/05-137 |  | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
| L2/05-108R |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), UTC #103 Minutes, "Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137."
| L2/06-157 |  | McGowan, Rick (2006-05-12), Comments on Public Review Issues (January 31, 2006 - May 12, 2006)
| L2/06-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes
| L2/13-232 |  | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada
| L2/14-053 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-041 |  | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
| L2/17-127 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
| L2/17-160 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
| L2/17-153 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-103 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), UTC #151 Minutes
4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 |  | L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2] |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
| L2/01-405R |  | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, "Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R"
| L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
| L2/03-102 |  | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
| L2/03-101.5 |  |  Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Kannada document], 2003-03-04
| L2/05-059 |  | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
| L2/05-026 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), UTC #102 Minutes
| L2/05-279 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes
U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 |  | L2/04-364 | N2860 | Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
| L2/05-059 |  | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
| L2/05-026 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), UTC #102 Minutes
| L2/05-279 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes
| L2/10-167 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
| L2/10-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, "Change the general category and script property of U+0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA and U+0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA from "GC=So" to "Lo" and from "Script=Common" to "Kannada" for Unicode 6.0."
| L2/09-342[lower-alpha 3] |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
| L2/13-242 |  | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada
| L2/14-053 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
| L2/14-066 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts
| L2/17-041 |  | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
| L2/17-127 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
| L2/17-160 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
| L2/17-153 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-103 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), UTC #151 Minutes
7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 |  | L2/10-392R2 | N3964 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
| L2/10-440 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
| L2/10-416R |  | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
|  | N4103 |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 |  | L2/14-153 | N4591 | Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
| L2/14-166 |  | A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts
| L2/14-170 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
| L2/14-188 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
| L2/14-177 |  | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), UTC #140 Minutes
| L2/15-158 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
| L2/15-204 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2015-07-25), Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
11.0 | U+0C84 | 1 |  | L2/16-031 |  | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode
| L2/16-004 |  | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes
14.0 | U+0CDD | 1 |  | L2/20-228R |  | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-01-07), Proposal to encode Kannada sign Nakaara Pollu
| L2/21-016R |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
| L2/21-009 |  | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes
15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 |  | L2/20-260 |  | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2020-08-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Right Top
| L2/20-250 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
| L2/21-114 |  | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2021-05-10), Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Above Right
| L2/21-130 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
| L2/21-123 |  | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
2. ↑ See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R
3. ↑ See also L2/09-404

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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