Malayalam (Unicode block)

Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters of the Malayalam script. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Malayalam
RangeU+0D00..U+0D7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsMalayalam
Major alphabetsMalayalam
Assigned118 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.078 (+78)
5.195 (+17)
6.098 (+3)
7.099 (+1)
8.0100 (+1)
9.0114 (+14)
10.0117 (+3)
13.0118 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Malayalam[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0D0x
U+0D1x
U+0D2x
U+0D3x ി
U+0D4x     
U+0D5x
U+0D6x
U+0D7x ൿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
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 Malayalam block:

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gollark: I have one, but it ends up having to basically run the entire BIOS again to rebuild the environment, and is now quite tightly coupled to potatOS.
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gollark: You can look at the insanely complex partly self-modifying mess known as potatOS for inspiration.
gollark: What works better is just preventing access to directories or files via editing the `fs` API.

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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