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Cham (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Cham
RangeU+AA00..U+AA5F
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCham
Major alphabetsEastern Cham
Assigned83 code points
Unused13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.183 (+83)
Note: [1][2]

Cham is a Unicode block containing characters of the Cham script, which is used for writing the Cham language, primarily used for the Eastern dialect in Cambodia and Vietnam.

A separate block for Western Cham, used in Cambodia, was first proposed to Unicode in 2016. As of May 2022 it is still being finalized.[3]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.1 U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F 83 N1126 Cham script [proposal summary form], 1994-10-14 
N1203 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva 
L2/97-124 N1559 Everson, Michael (1997-05-01), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 
L2/99-081 N1960 Everson, Michael (1999-02-01), Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts 
N1997 Nhan, Ngo Than (1999-02-26), Response to Michael Everson 
L2/06-257 N3120 Everson, Michael (2006-08-06), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/06-231 Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), UTC #108 Minutes 
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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. 
  3. ↑ "ScriptSource - Entry - Unicode Status (Western Cham)". https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=z6dlrcd64h. 



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