Siddham (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Siddham
RangeU+11580..U+115FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsSiddham
Major alphabetsSiddham
Assigned92 code points
Unused36 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.072 (+72)
8.092 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

Siddham is a Unicode block containing characters for the historical, Brahmi-derived Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit between the years c. 550 – c. 1200.[3]

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/12-031 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-011R N4185 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/12-184 Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents 
L2/12-221 N4506 Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2012-06-28), Comments on naming the "Siddham" encoding 
L2/12-237 N4507 Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2012-07-11), Comments on the name of the "Siddham" script 
L2/12-267 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-274 Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-25), Recommendation against encoding ornamental punctuation marks for Siddham 
L2/12-279 Eidson, Eijun; Harada-Eidson, Shoken (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script 
L2/12-281 Yoritomi, Honkō (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of "Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646" 
L2/12-277 Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC 
L2/12-234R N4294 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01), Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script 
L2/12-239 Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), UTC #132 Minutes 
L2/12-367 N4361 Suzuki, Toshiya (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294) 
L2/12-369 N4369 Eidson, Eijun (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294) 
N4460 Siddham ad hoc report, 2013-06-12 
L2/13-132 Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), UTC #136 Minutes, "Change the names of two Siddham punctuation marks" 
8.0 U+115CA..115D7 14 L2/12-323 N4336 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-30), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/12-372 N4378 Anderson, Deborah (2012-10-24), Additional Information on Siddham Section Marks (N4336) 
L2/13-028 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals 
L2/13-033R N4391 Eidson, Bill (2013-01-28), Additional information on Siddham Section marks 
L2/13-011 Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), UTC #134 Minutes 
L2/13-156 N4457 Anderson, Deborah (2013-06-11), Name changes for Siddham Section marks 
L2/13-132 Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), UTC #136 Minutes, "Approve the revised repertoire of 14 Siddham section marks ..." 
N4403 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 
U+115D8..115DD 6 L2/13-110 N4407R Kawabata, Taichi; Suzuki, Toshiya; Nagasaki, Kiyonori; Shimoda, Masahiro (2013-06-11), Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script 
L2/13-136 N4468 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-06-15), Additional Siddham Variants 
L2/13-165 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals 
L2/13-189 N4486 Glass, Andrew (2013-10-10), Comments on N4407R Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script 
L2/13-195 N4490 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), A Practical Approach to Encoding Siddham Variants 
L2/13-208 Sharma, Shriramana (2013-10-30), Response to L2/13-195 on Siddham 
L2/13-210 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals 
L2/14-053 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals 
N4403 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 
L2/14-062 Glass, Andrew (2014-02-04), Concerns about encoding variants of Matras in Siddham 
N4557 Toshiya, Suzuki (2014-02-24), Brief Summary of the Discussion about Shape-Based Separation of Siddham Vowel Sign U/UU 
L2/14-074 N4560 Anderson, Deborah (2014-02-24), Siddham Ad Hoc Report 
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), UTC #139 Minutes 
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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