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    Makasar (Unicode block)

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    Short description: Unicode character block
    Makasar
    RangeU+11EE0..U+11EFF
    (32 code points)
    PlaneSMP
    ScriptsMakasar
    Assigned25 code points
    Unused7 reserved code points
    Unicode version history
    11.025 (+25)
    Note: [1][2]

    Makasar is a Unicode block containing characters for Makasar script (also known as "Old Makassarese" or "Makassarese bird script" in English-language scholarly works).[3] The script was used historically in South Sulawesi, Indonesia for writing the Makassarese language.[4]

    Block

    History

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

    Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID Document
    11.0 U+11EE0..11EF8 25 L2/15-100 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-06-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Makassarese Bird Script 
    L2/15-179 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-07-18), Proposal to Encode the Old Makassarese Script 
    L2/15-312 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals 
    L2/15-233 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02), Proposal to encode the Makasar script 
    L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes 
    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 (2015-11-02). "L2/15-233: Proposal to encode the Makasar script in Unicode". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15233-makasar.pdf. 
    4. ↑ "Chapter 17: Indonesia and Oceania". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/ch17.pdf. 



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