Devanagari Extended

See also: Devanagari (Unicode block), Devanagari Extended-A (Unicode block), and Vedic Extensions (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Devanagari Extended

Range| U+A8E0..U+A8FF
(32 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Devanagari
Symbol sets| Samaveda cantillation marks
nasalization marks
Assigned| 32 code points
Unused| 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2| 28 (+28)
8.0| 30 (+2)
11.0| 32 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Devanagari Extended is a Unicode block containing cantillation marks for writing the Samaveda, and nasalization marks for the Devanagari script.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Block

Template:Unicode chart Devanagari Extended

## History

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

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

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L2/00-178 |  | Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Encoding Vedic Accents
L2/00-155 |  | Moore, Lisa (2000-05-31), Comments on Encoding Vedic Accents Proposal
L2/03-066 |  |  New Proposal for Vedic Characters and Symbols, 2003-02-26
L2/03-102 |  | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.2 |  |  Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Devanagari document], 2003-03-04
L2/04-398 |  |  Proposal to encode Vedic accents, etc., 2004-11-12
L2/05-063 |  | Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode
L2/05-070 |  | McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report
L2/05-026 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), UTC #102 Minutes
L2/05-228 |  | Muller, Eric (2005-08-11), Analysis of a TDIL proposal for Vedic
L2/06-185 |  |  Proposal for Encoding of Vedic Characters & Symbols in Unicode, 2006-05-10
L2/06-384 |  | Lata, Swaran (2006-10-25), Letter from T. N. Dharmadhikari in support of Vedic repertoire
L2/07-060 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-02-02), Vedic Unicode Workshop Report
L2/07-230 | N3290 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-07-26), Revised proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-254 |  | Bhushan, E. K. Bharat (2007-08-01), Unicode for Vedic Sanskrit (letter to Mark Davis)
L2/07-262 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-07), Outline of the development of WG2/n3290 = L2/07-230
L2/07-271 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-08), Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230)
L2/07-272 |  | Muller, Eric (2007-08-10), Report of the South Asia subcommittee
L2/07-396 |  | Joshi, R. K.; Irani, Alka (2007-10-10), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Character and Symbols in Unicode
L2/07-386 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Comments on Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230)
L2/07-388 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Following observations have been made with reference to the document No. L2/07-095 dated: 2007-04-13
L2/07-343 | N3366 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-10-18), Proposal to encode 55 characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-394 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Significant differences between L2/07-230 and L2/07-343
L2/07-395 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-18), Request for feedback on draft proposal for encoding Vaidika characters and symbols in Unicode
L2/07-397 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-18), Vaidika Vowels and Consonants
L2/07-400 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Comments on R. K. Joshi's documents L2/07-386 and L2/07-388
L2/07-401 |  | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Equivalences between L2/07-396 and L2/07-343
L2/07-345 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), UTC #113 Minutes
L2/08-035 |  | Scharf, Peter; Rosenfield, Susan J. (2008-01-22), Vedic Revisions 2008 Jan 14, Revisions to N3366 = L2/07-343
L2/08-042 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-23), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Characters & Symbols in Unicode
L2/08-043 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-28), Vaidika Extensions A & B (Vedic evidence to accompany L2/08-042)
L2/08-092 | N3385 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-01-31), Comparison between two Vedic proposals of January 2008
L2/08-097 |  |  Amendments to L2/08-042, L2/08-043, 2008-01-31
L2/08-050R | N3383R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-03-06), Summary proposal to encode characters for Vedic in the BMP of the UCS
L2/08-096 |  | Joshi, R. K. (2008-02-02), Comparison of L2/08-042 and L2/08-050
L2/08-110 |  | Muller, Eric (2008-02-08), South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-003 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-176 | N3456R | Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-18), Summary of Vedic Characters based on N3385, N3383R, and the Unicode Pipeline
L2/08-196 |  |  Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS, 2008-05-05
L2/08-216 |  | Scharf, Peter (2008-05-08), Comments on L2/08-196 regarding the encoding of Sanskrit and Vedic
L2/08-294 |  | Scharf, Peter (2008-08-06), Placement of characters in Vedic, Devanagari, and Devanagari Extended blocks
L2/08-317 |  | Muller, Eric (2008-08-11), South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-253R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), UTC #116 Minutes
L2/08-273R3 | N3488R3 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-08-21), Proposal to encode two characters for Vedic in the UCS
L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/09-067 |  | Lata, Swaran (2009-01-28), Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS
8.0 | U+A8FC | 1 | L2/12-147 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-123R | N4260 | Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Proposal to Encode the Sign SIDDHAM for Devanagari
L2/12-343R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), UTC #133 Minutes
| N4353 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
U+A8FD | 1 | L2/13-056 | N4408 | Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-25), Proposal to Encode the Sign JAIN OM for Devanagari in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/13-086 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-058 |  | Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), UTC #135 Minutes
| N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
11.0 | U+A8FE..A8FF | 2 | L2/15-335 |  | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Proposal to encode the Devanagari letter and vowel sign AY
L2/16-037 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-004 |  | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## See also

* Devanagari in Unicode

## 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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