Lepcha (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Lepcha

Range| U+1C00..U+1C4F
(80 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Lepcha
Major alphabets| Lepcha
Assigned| 74 code points
Unused| 6 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1| 74 (+74)
Note: [1][2]

Lepcha is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Lepcha language of Sikkim and West Bengal, India.

## History

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

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

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5.1 | U+1C00..1C37, 1C3B..1C49, 1C4D..1C4F | 74 | UTC/1991-101 |  |  | McGowan, Rick (1991-10-24), Róng (Lepcha) block description and chart draft
| L2/03-253 |  | Kai, Daniel (2003-08-13), Lepcha, Limbu, Syloti, Saurashtra, Tai Le and Bugis Proposals
| L2/03-259 |  | Kai, Daniel (2003-08-13), Introduction to the Lepcha Script
| L2/04-397 |  | Vikas, Om (2004-10-28), Proposal to encode Lepcha
| L2/05-061R |  | Everson, Michael (2005-02-04), Analysis of Indian proposal to encode Lepcha script in the UCS
| L2/05-158R | N2947R | Everson, Michael (2005-06-15), Proposal for encoding the Lepcha Script in the BMP of the UCS
| L2/05-180 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes
| L2/05-270 |  | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis)
|  | N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
| L2/06-220 |  |  Letter from Government of Sikkim regarding Lepcha Encoding, 2006-05-12
| L2/06-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes, "Accept U+1C35 LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG for encoding in a future version of the standard."
| L2/06-231 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), UTC #108 Minutes
| L2/11-305 |  | Priest, Lorna A. (2011-07-27), Lepcha Encoding model feedback

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.

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