Cham (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Cham

Range| U+AA00..U+AA5F
(96 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Cham
Major alphabets| Eastern Cham
Assigned| 83 code points
Unused| 13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1| 83 (+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

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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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