In today's world, Kannada (Unicode block) has become a topic of increasing interest. Whether due to its impact on society, its relevance in the academic field or its influence on popular culture, Kannada (Unicode block) has positioned itself as a topic of constant debate and reflection. From its origins to the present, Kannada (Unicode block) has been the subject of study and analysis by experts in different areas, who have tried to decipher its multiple facets and understand its importance in the development of humanity. In this article, we will explore the different perspectives from which Kannada (Unicode block) can be approached, and we will analyze its relevance in the contemporary world.
| Kannada | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0C80..U+0CFF (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Kannada |
| Major alphabets | Kannada Tulu |
| Assigned | 91 code points |
| Unused | 37 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISCII |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 80 (+80) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 82 (+2) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 86 (+4) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 87 (+1) |
| 9.0 (2016) | 88 (+1) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 89 (+1) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 90 (+1) |
| 15.0 (2022) | 91 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: | |
Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
| Kannada Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+0C8x | ಀ | ಁ | ಂ | ಃ | ಄ | ಅ | ಆ | ಇ | ಈ | ಉ | ಊ | ಋ | ಌ | ಎ | ಏ | |
| U+0C9x | ಐ | ಒ | ಓ | ಔ | ಕ | ಖ | ಗ | ಘ | ಙ | ಚ | ಛ | ಜ | ಝ | ಞ | ಟ | |
| U+0CAx | ಠ | ಡ | ಢ | ಣ | ತ | ಥ | ದ | ಧ | ನ | ಪ | ಫ | ಬ | ಭ | ಮ | ಯ | |
| U+0CBx | ರ | ಱ | ಲ | ಳ | ವ | ಶ | ಷ | ಸ | ಹ | ಼ | ಽ | ಾ | ಿ | |||
| U+0CCx | ೀ | ು | ೂ | ೃ | ೄ | ೆ | ೇ | ೈ | ೊ | ೋ | ೌ | ್ | ||||
| U+0CDx | ೕ | ೖ | ೝ | ೞ | ||||||||||||
| U+0CEx | ೠ | ೡ | ೢ | ೣ | ೦ | ೧ | ೨ | ೩ | ೪ | ೫ | ೬ | ೭ | ೮ | ೯ | ||
| U+0CFx | ೱ | ೲ | ೳ | |||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kannada block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | UTC/1991-056 | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam | ||
| UTC/1991-057 | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list | |||||
| UTC/1991-048B | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple | |||||
| L2/01-303 | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" | |||||
| L2/01-304 | Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 | |||||
| L2/01-305 | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" | |||||
| L2/01-430R | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" | |||||
| L2/05-137 | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names | |||||
| L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137. | |||||
| L2/06-157 | McGowan, Rick (2006-05-12), "Proposed Additional Name Aliases (BETA FEEDBACK) ", Comments on Public Review Issues (January 31, 2006 - May 12, 2006) | |||||
| L2/06-108 | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "B.11.10 ", UTC #107 Minutes | |||||
| L2/13-232 | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada | |||||
| L2/14-053 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "3", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-041 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs | |||||
| L2/17-127 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs | |||||
| L2/17-160 | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL | |||||
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | L2/01-431R | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R | ||
| L2/01-405R | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R | |||||
| L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts | ||||
| L2/03-102 | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts | |||||
| L2/03-101.5 | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts , 2003-03-04 | |||||
| 5.0 | U+0CE2..0CE3 | 2 | L2/04-364 | N2860 | Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS | |
| L2/05-059 | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues | |||||
| L2/05-026 | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes | |||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes | |||||
| U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | L2/04-364 | N2860 | Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS | ||
| L2/05-059 | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues | |||||
| L2/05-026 | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes | |||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes | |||||
| L2/10-167 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "1", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | |||||
| L2/10-108 | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C29", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Change the general category and script property of U+0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA and U+0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA from "GC=So" to "Lo" and from "Script=Common" to "Kannada" for Unicode 6.0. | |||||
| L2/09-342 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya | |||||
| L2/13-242 | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada | |||||
| L2/14-053 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "2", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/14-066 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts | |||||
| L2/17-041 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs | |||||
| L2/17-127 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs | |||||
| L2/17-160 | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL | |||||
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
| 7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 | L2/10-392R2 | N3964 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s | |
| L2/10-440 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "5. South Indian Candrabindus", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | |||||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "South Indian candrabindu-s (D.8)", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | |||||
| N4103 | "11.2.4 South Indian CANDRABINDU-s", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | |||||
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | L2/14-153 | N4591 | Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu | |
| L2/14-166 | A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts | |||||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "3", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/14-188 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu | |||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Kannada Spacing Candrabindu (D.6)", UTC #140 Minutes | |||||
| L2/15-158 | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU | |||||
| L2/15-204 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11p", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+0C84 | 1 | L2/16-031 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode | ||
| L2/16-004 | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.2.2", UTC #146 Minutes | |||||
| 14.0 | U+0CDD | 1 | L2/20-228R | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-01-07), Proposal to encode Kannada sign Nakaara Pollu | ||
| L2/21-016R | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "12 Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/21-009 | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C28", UTC #166 Minutes | |||||
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | L2/20-260 | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2020-08-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Right Top | ||
| L2/20-250 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "11. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/21-114 | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2021-05-10), Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Above Right | |||||
| L2/21-130 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "9. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/21-123 | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C24", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 | |||||