Vedic Extensions

Unicode character block
(2009)35 (+35)6.1 (2012)39 (+4)7.0 (2014)41 (+2)10.0 (2017)42 (+1)12.0 (2019)43 (+1) Unicode documentationCode chart ∣ Web pageNote: [1][2]
Vedic Extensions Unicode Block
Vedic Extensions Unicode Block

Vedic Extensions is a Unicode block containing characters for representing tones and other vedic symbols in Devanagari and other Indic scripts. Related symbols (also used in many scripts to represent vedic accents) are defined in two other blocks: Devanagari (U+0900–U+097F) and Devanagari Extended (U+A8E0–U+A8FF).

Block

Vedic Extensions[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+1CDx
U+1CEx
U+1CFx  ᳵ   ᳶ 
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+1CD0..1CF2 35 L2/00-144 Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Vedic Accents (untitled, undated early draft)
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
L2/03-067 Joshi, R. K. (2003-02-27), Vedic Code Set; a draft
L2/04-398 Proposal to encode Vedic accents, etc., 2004-11-12
L2/05-063 Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Devanagari", 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), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", 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
L2/07-095R N3235R Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
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), "11", 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.; et al. (2007-10-18), Request for feedback on draft proposal for encoding Vaidika characters and symbols in Unicode
L2/07-397 Joshi, R. K.; et al. (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), "Consensus 113-C19", 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), "Vedic", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-137 Bhushan, E. K. Bharat (2008-04-09), Letter re Vedic Sanskrit Proposal
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
L2/08-214 Scharf, Peter; Rosenfield, Susan (2008-05-12), Proposal to encode Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Mid-char Svarita as 1CD4 in the BMP of the UCS
L2/08-218 Muller, Eric (2008-05-12), "1.2, 1.3, 1.10, 1.11", South Asia Subcommittee Report - Monday May 12, 2008
L2/08-219 Scharf, Peter; Chandrashekar, R. (2008-05-13), Devanagari examples of Vedic tone Yajurvedic Mid-char Svarita
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), "1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7", South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-327 Jain, Manoj (2008-08-14), The Vedic Language
L2/08-273R3 N3488R3 Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-08-21), Proposal to encode two characters for Vedic in the UCS
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Vedic", UTC #115 Minutes
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.03", 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
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+1CD4]
L2/09-298 Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-13), Request change name of VEDIC SIGN NIHSHVASA
L2/11-007 Sharma, Shriramana (2011-01-15), Request to annotate 1CD8 VEDIC TONE CANDRA BELOW
L2/11-042 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-02-02), "1. Vedic", Review of Indic related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/17-424 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0
L2/18-039 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-007 Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039.
L2/18-075 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-03-06), Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas
L2/18-168 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "7. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.11 Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-330 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-11-18), Extending the ScriptExtensions property of Ardhavisarga for Oriya
L2/19-008 Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "B.14.8 Extending the ScriptExtensions property of Ardhavisarga for Oriya", UTC #158 Minutes
6.1 U+1CF3 1 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
L2/09-343 Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-09), Request for encoding 1CF3 ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA
L2/09-404 Scharf, Peter (2009-11-02), Feedback on various documents on Vedic
L2/10-167 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "2", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C30", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Accept U+1CF3 VEDIC SIGN ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA with general category "Mc" for encoding in a future version of the standard.
L2/10-234 N3861 Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-09), Request for encoding 1CF3 VEDIC SIGN ROTATED ARDHAVISARGA
L2/10-299R Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Vedic Rotated Ardhavisarga", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/18-075 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-03-06), Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas
L2/18-168 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "7. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.11 Proposed Property Changes for Ardhavisargas", UTC #155 Minutes
U+1CF4 1 L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "E.4", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
L2/09-344[b] N3844 Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-11), Request for encoding 1CF4 VEDIC TONE CANDRA ABOVE
L2/10-167 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "3", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C31", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/17-424 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0
L2/18-039 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-007 Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039.
U+1CF5..1CF6 2 L2/10-257 N3881 Anderson, Deborah; Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-26), Request to add two characters to the Vedic Extensions block
L2/10-299R Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "Two Vedic characters", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/10-221 Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.4", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
L2/09-342[b] Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/17-095 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-04-12), Request to change the glyphs of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
L2/17-255 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "15. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-222 Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #152 Minutes
L2/17-319 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-09-12), Reconsidering the glyph change of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
L2/17-384 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), "9. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "D.10 Reconsidering the glyph change of Vedic signs Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya", UTC #153 Minutes
7.0 U+1CF8..1CF9 2 L2/11-267R N4134 Sharma, Shriramana (2011-07-07), Proposal to encode svara markers for the Jaiminiya Archika
L2/11-298 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "1. Vedic", South Asian subcommittee report
L2/11-326 Palaniappan, S. (2011-08-04), Comment on UTC document L2/11-186
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.10", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
N4253 (pdf, doc) "M59.16b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
10.0 U+1CF7 1 L2/15-204 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "1. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-160R Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 1CF7 VEDIC SIGN ATIKRAMA
L2/15-187 Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.3.1", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739 "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
12.0 U+1CFA 1 L2/17-117 N4820 Pandey, Anshuman (2017-04-25), Proposal to encode a nasal character in Vedic Extensions (revised)
L2/17-153 Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "8. Vedic", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103 Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.9.3", UTC #151 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ a b See also L2/09-404

See also

  • Devanagari in Unicode

References

  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.