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Multani (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Multani
RangeU+11280..U+112AF
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMultani
Major alphabetsMultani
Assigned38 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Unicode version history
8.038 (+38)
Note: [1][2]

Multani is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Multani alphabet, a Brahmic script used in the Multan region of Punjab and in northern Sindh in Pakistan . The script is now obsolete, but was historically used to write the Saraiki language.[3]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
8.0 U+11280..11286, 11288, 1128A..1128D, 1128F..1129D, 1129F..112A9 38 L2/10-011R N3766 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-09), A Roadmap for Scripts of the Landa Family 
L2/10-013 N3768 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-09), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Landa Script in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/11-124 N4027 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-26), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Multani Script 
L2/12-316 N4159 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-25), Proposal to Encode the Multani Script in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/12-343R2 Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), UTC #133 Minutes 
N4353 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 
  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. ↑ Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-25). "N4159: Proposal to Encode the Multani Script in ISO/IEC 10646". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12316-multani.pdf. 



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