Multani is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Multani alphabet, a Brahmic script used in the Multan region of Punjab and in northern Sindh in Pakistan. The script is now obsolete, but was historically used to write the Saraiki language.[3]
| Multani | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11280..U+112AF (48 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Multani |
| Major alphabets | Multani |
| Assigned | 38 code points |
| Unused | 10 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 8.0 (2015) | 38 (+38) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| Multani[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+1128x | 𑊀 | 𑊁 | 𑊂 | 𑊃 | 𑊄 | 𑊅 | 𑊆 | 𑊈 | 𑊊 | 𑊋 | 𑊌 | 𑊍 | 𑊏 | |||
| U+1129x | 𑊐 | 𑊑 | 𑊒 | 𑊓 | 𑊔 | 𑊕 | 𑊖 | 𑊗 | 𑊘 | 𑊙 | 𑊚 | 𑊛 | 𑊜 | 𑊝 | 𑊟 | |
| U+112Ax | 𑊠 | 𑊡 | 𑊢 | 𑊣 | 𑊤 | 𑊥 | 𑊦 | 𑊧 | 𑊨 | 𑊩 | ||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History edit
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Multani block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | U+11280..11286, 11288, 1128A..1128D, 1128F..1129D, 1129F..112A9 | 38 | L2/10-011R | N3766 | Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-09), A Roadmap for Scripts of the Landa Family |
| L2/10-013 | N3768 | Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-09), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Landa Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/11-124 | N4027 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-26), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Multani Script | |||
| L2/12-316 | N4159 | Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-25), Proposal to Encode the Multani Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/12-343R2 | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C20", UTC #133 Minutes | ||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
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References edit
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-25). "N4159: Proposal to Encode the Multani Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.