Makasar (Unicode block)

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]

Makasar
RangeU+11EE0..U+11EFF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMakasar
Assigned25 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)25 (+25)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block edit

Makasar[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+11EEx 𑻠 𑻡 𑻢 𑻣 𑻤 𑻥 𑻦 𑻧 𑻨 𑻩 𑻪 𑻫 𑻬 𑻭 𑻮 𑻯
U+11EFx 𑻰 𑻱 𑻲 𑻳 𑻴 𑻵 𑻶 𑻷 𑻸
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] 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), "4. Makasar Script", 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), "D.4", UTC #145 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02). "L2/15-233: Proposal to encode the Makasar script in Unicode" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Chapter 17: Indonesia and Oceania". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1.