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Myanmar (Unicode block)

May 31, 2023

See also: Myanmar Extended-A (Unicode block) and Myanmar Extended-B (Unicode block)

Myanmar is a Unicode block containing characters for the Burmese, Mon, Shan, Palaung, and the Karen languages of Myanmar, as well as the Aiton and Phake languages of Northeast India. It is also used to write Pali and Sanskrit in Myanmar.

Myanmar
RangeU+1000..U+109F
(160 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsMyanmar
Major alphabetsBurmese
Mon
Karen
Kayah
Shan
Palaung
Assigned160 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)78 (+78)
5.1 (2008)156 (+78)
5.2 (2009)160 (+4)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1][2]
Range used for Tibetan script prior to Unicode 1.0.1 (see Tibetan (obsolete Unicode block)).

Block

Myanmar[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+100x က ခ ဂ ဃ င စ ဆ ဇ ဈ ဉ ည ဋ ဌ ဍ ဎ ဏ
U+101x တ ထ ဒ ဓ န ပ ဖ ဗ ဘ မ ယ ရ လ ဝ သ ဟ
U+102x ဠ အ ဢ ဣ ဤ ဥ ဦ ဧ ဨ ဩ ဪ ါ ာ ိ ီ ု
U+103x ူ ေ ဲ ဳ ဴ ဵ ံ ့ း    ္  ် ျ ြ ွ ှ ဿ
U+104x ၀ ၁ ၂ ၃ ၄ ၅ ၆ ၇ ၈ ၉ ၊ ။ ၌ ၍ ၎ ၏
U+105x ၐ ၑ ၒ ၓ ၔ ၕ ၖ ၗ ၘ ၙ ၚ ၛ ၜ ၝ ၞ ၟ
U+106x ၠ ၡ ၢ ၣ ၤ ၥ ၦ ၧ ၨ ၩ ၪ ၫ ၬ ၭ ၮ ၯ
U+107x ၰ ၱ ၲ ၳ ၴ ၵ ၶ ၷ ၸ ၹ ၺ ၻ ၼ ၽ ၾ ၿ
U+108x ႀ ႁ ႂ ႃ ႄ ႅ ႆ ႇ ႈ ႉ ႊ ႋ ႌ ႍ ႎ ႏ
U+109x ႐ ႑ ႒ ႓ ႔ ႕ ႖ ႗ ႘ ႙ ႚ ႛ ႜ ႝ ႞ ႟
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0

The block has sixteen variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) to denote the dotted letters used for the Khamti, Aiton, and Phake languages.[4] (Note that this is font dependent. For example, the Padauk font supports some of the dotted forms.)

Variation sequences for dotted forms
U+ 1000 1002 1004 1010 1011 1015 1019 101A 101C 101D 1022 1031 1075 1078 107A 1080
base code point က ဂ င တ ထ ပ မ ယ လ ဝ ဢ ေ ၵ ၸ ၺ ႀ
base + VS01 က︀ ဂ︀ င︀ တ︀ ထ︀ ပ︀ မ︀ ယ︀ လ︀ ဝ︀ ဢ︀ ေ︀ ၵ︀ ၸ︀ ၺ︀ ႀ︀

History

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

Historic and nonstandard uses of range

In Unicode 1.0.0, part of the current Myanmar block was used for Tibetan. In Microsoft Windows, collation data referring to the old Tibetan block was retained as late as Windows XP, and removed in Windows 2003.[5]

In Myanmar, devices and software localisation often use Zawgyi fonts rather than Unicode-compliant fonts.[6] These use the same range as the Unicode Myanmar block (0x1000–0x109F), and are even applied to text encoded like UTF-8 (although Zawgyi text does not officially constitute UTF-8), despite only a subset of the code points being interpreted the same way. Zawgyi lacks support for Myanmar-script languages other than Burmese, but heuristic methods exist for detecting the encoding of text which is assumed to be Burmese.[7]

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.
  3. ^ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  4. ^ Hosken, Martin (2015-11-03). "L2/15-320: Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti Characters" (PDF).
  5. ^ Kaplan, Michael (2007-08-28). "Every character has a story #29: U+1000^H^H^H^H0f40, (TIBETAN or MYANMAR LETTER KA, depending on when you ask)". Sorting it all out.
  6. ^ Nagarajah, Sasha. "Zawgyi vs. Unicode". Global App Testing.
  7. ^ Loomis, Steven R.; Cornelius, Craig (2019). "Myanmar Scripts and Languages". Frequently Asked Questions. Unicode Consortium.

May 31, 2023
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See also Myanmar Extended A Unicode block and Myanmar Extended B Unicode block Myanmar is a Unicode block containing characters for the Burmese Mon Shan Palaung and the Karen languages of Myanmar as well as the Aiton and Phake languages of Northeast India It is also used to write Pali and Sanskrit in Myanmar MyanmarRangeU 1000 U 109F 160 code points PlaneBMPScriptsMyanmarMajor alphabetsBurmeseMonKarenKayahShanPalaungAssigned160 code pointsUnused0 reserved code pointsUnicode version history3 0 1999 78 78 5 1 2008 156 78 5 2 2009 160 4 ChartCode chartNote 1 2 Range used for Tibetan script prior to Unicode 1 0 1 see Tibetan obsolete Unicode block Contents 1 Block 2 History 3 Historic and nonstandard uses of range 4 ReferencesBlock EditMyanmar 1 Official Unicode Consortium code chart PDF 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FU 100x က ခ ဂ ဃ င စ ဆ ဇ ဈ ဉ ည ဋ ဌ ဍ ဎ ဏU 101x တ ထ ဒ ဓ န ပ ဖ ဗ ဘ မ ယ ရ လ ဝ သ ဟU 102x ဠ အ ဢ ဣ ဤ ဥ ဦ ဧ ဨ ဩ ဪ U 103x ဿU 104x ၀ ၁ ၂ ၃ ၄ ၅ ၆ ၇ ၈ ၉ U 105x ၐ ၑ ၒ ၓ ၔ ၕ ၚ ၛ ၜ ၝ U 106x ၡ ၥ ၦ ၮ ၯU 107x ၰ ၵ ၶ ၷ ၸ ၹ ၺ ၻ ၼ ၽ ၾ ၿU 108x ႀ ႁ ႎ U 109x ႐ ႑ ႒ ႓ ႔ ႕ ႖ ႗ ႘ ႙ Notes 1 As of Unicode version 15 0The block has sixteen variation sequences defined for standardized variants 3 They use U FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR 1 VS01 to denote the dotted letters used for the Khamti Aiton and Phake languages 4 Note that this is font dependent For example the Padauk font supports some of the dotted forms Variation sequences for dotted forms U 1000 1002 1004 1010 1011 1015 1019 101A 101C 101D 1022 1031 1075 1078 107A 1080base code point က ဂ င တ ထ ပ မ ယ လ ဝ ဢ ၵ ၸ ၺ ႀbase VS01 က ဂ င တ ထ ပ မ ယ လ ဝ ဢ ၵ ၸ ၺ ႀ History EditThe following Unicode related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Myanmar block Version Final code points a Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document3 0 U 1000 1021 1023 1027 1029 102A 102C 1032 1036 1039 1040 1059 78 N881 Ross Hugh McGregor 1993 04 02 Comment on Burmese ScriptN1167 Everson Michael 1995 03 12 Names of Burmese characters comment on Unicode Technical Report 1X3L2 96 061 Everson Michael 1996 05 28 Proposal for encoding the Burmese script in ISO 10646UTC 1996 027 2 Greenfield Steve 1996 07 01 F Burmese UTC 69 Minutes PART 2 L2 97 039 N1523 Ross Hugh McGregor Everson Michael 1997 01 22 Proposal for encoding the Burmese script in ISO 10646L2 97 288 N1603 Umamaheswaran V S 1997 10 24 8 13 Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes WG 2 Meeting 33 Heraklion Crete Greece 20 June 4 July 1997L2 98 044 Collins Lee 1998 02 23 Revised Proposal for Encoding Burmese in UnicodeL2 98 101 N1729 Ad hoc report on Burmese and Khmer 1998 03 18L2 98 177 Text for PDAM registration and consideration ballot for ISO 10646 1 Amendment 26 Burmese 1998 05 11N1780 PDAM 26 Burmese 1998 05 11N1826 Paterson Bruce 1998 05 11 PDAM26 Burmese cover sheetN1826 1 Paterson Bruce 1998 05 11 PDAM26 Burmese full textL2 98 158 Aliprand Joan Winkler Arnold 1998 05 26 Burmese Draft Minutes UTC 76 amp NCITS Subgroup L2 173 joint meeting Tredyffrin Pennsylvania April 20 22 1998L2 98 286 N1703 Umamaheswaran V S Ksar Mike 1998 07 02 8 18 Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes WG 2 Meeting 34 Redmond WA USA 1998 03 16 20L2 98 265 Htut Zaw 1998 07 24 Response to Burmese Proposal N1729 Expert Contribution L2 98 281R pdf html Aliprand Joan 1998 07 31 Burmese IV E 1 Unconfirmed Minutes UTC 77 amp NCITS Subgroup L2 174 JOINT MEETING Redmond WA July 29 31 1998N1836 html doc Ireland Japan Summary of Voting Table of Replies Amendment 26 Burmese 1998 08 27L2 98 371 N1883R2 Whistler Ken 1998 09 24 Myanmar Burmese Ad Hoc Meeting ReportL2 98 325 ISO IEC 10646 1 FPDAM 26 AMENDMENT 26 Myanmar 1998 10 23L2 98 342 Disposition of comments report on SC2 N3106 ISO 10646 Amd 26 Burmese 1998 10 23N1912 Paterson Bruce Everson Michael 1998 10 23 Disposition of Comments FPDAM26 BurmeseN1913 Paterson Bruce Everson Michael 1998 10 23 Text of FPDAM 26 Myanmar BurmeseL2 99 010 N1903 pdf html doc Umamaheswaran V S 1998 12 30 8 1 7 Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35 London U K 1998 09 21 25L2 99 036 Becker Joe 1999 02 02 Proposal that Myanmar VOWEL SIGN E be Stored in Phonetic Order i e After its Consonant L2 99 129 Paterson Bruce 1999 04 14 Text for FDAM ballot ISO IEC 10646 FDAM 26 MyanmarL2 99 054R Aliprand Joan 1999 06 21 Myanmar Vowel Sign E Approved Minutes from the UTC L2 meeting in Palo Alto February 3 5 1999L2 99 232 N2003 Umamaheswaran V S 1999 08 03 6 2 9 FPDAM26 Myanmar Burmese script Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36 Fukuoka Japan 1999 03 09 15L2 01 307 Whistler Ken 2001 08 06 Serious bug in Khmer Myanmar combining classesL2 01 308 Hosken Martin Whistler Ken 2001 08 08 Serious bug in Khmer Myanmar combining classesL2 02 283 Hosken Martin 2002 07 05 Myanmar Script Canonical OrderingL2 06 108 Moore Lisa 2006 05 25 Motion 107 M5 UTC 107 Minutes Approve glyph changes for U 1039 MYANMAR SIGN VIRAMA and U 104E MYANMAR SYMBOL AFOREMENTIONED N3353 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2007 10 10 M51 24 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou China 2007 04 24 27L2 08 192 Stribley Keith 2008 05 02 Comments on Myanmar Unicode introduction textL2 10 360 Myint Tun 2010 09 27 Excerpts from Myanmar Spelling DictionaryL2 14 141 Unicode Standard Announcement Letter 2014 05 23L2 14 170 Anderson Deborah Whistler Ken McGowan Rick Pournader Roozbeh Iancu Laurențiu 2014 07 28 16 Recommendations to UTC 140 August 2014 on Script ProposalsL2 14 108 Hosken Martin Morey Stephen 2014 08 05 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Style Letters from MyanmarL2 15 257 Hosken Martin 2015 11 02 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Letters from MyanmarL2 15 320 Hosken Martin 2015 11 03 Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti CharactersL2 15 254 Moore Lisa 2015 11 16 Consensus 145 C23 UTC 145 Minutes Accept the 27 variation sequences in document L2 15 320 for Unicode version 9 0 5 1 U 1022 1075 1099 109E 109F 40 L2 04 198 N2768R Oo Thein Htut Thein Tint Tun Htut Zaw Tun Ngwe 2004 05 19 Proposal of Myanmar Script Extensions Mon Shan and Karen Kayin N2953 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2006 02 16 7 4 9 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47 Sophia Antipolis France 2005 09 12 15L2 06 119 N3080 Everson Michael Hosken Martin 2006 04 09 Preliminary proposal for encoding Karen Shan and Kayah charactersL2 06 304 N3143 Everson Michael Hosken Martin 2006 09 08 Proposal for encoding Myanmar characters for Shan and Palaung in the UCSN3153 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2007 02 16 M49 15 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST Akihabara Tokyo Japan 2006 09 25 29L2 06 324R2 Moore Lisa 2006 11 29 Consensus 109 C7 UTC 109 MinutesN3353 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2007 10 10 M51 1 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou China 2007 04 24 27L2 07 225 Moore Lisa 2007 08 21 Myanmar for Shan UTC 112 MinutesL2 07 205R2 N3277R2 Everson Michael 2007 08 28 Proposal for encoding additional Myanmar characters for Shan in the UCSL2 07 345 Moore Lisa 2007 10 25 Consensus 113 C11 UTC 113 MinutesL2 06 170 Wordingham Richard 2009 05 07 Shan Related Issues with N3080 Preliminary proposal for encoding Karen Shan and Kayah CharactersL2 14 170 Anderson Deborah Whistler Ken McGowan Rick Pournader Roozbeh Iancu Laurențiu 2014 07 28 16 Recommendations to UTC 140 August 2014 on Script ProposalsL2 14 108 Hosken Martin Morey Stephen 2014 08 05 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Style Letters from MyanmarL2 15 257 Hosken Martin 2015 11 02 Proposal to Disunify Khamti Letters from MyanmarL2 15 320 Hosken Martin 2015 11 03 Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti CharactersL2 15 254 Moore Lisa 2015 11 16 Consensus 145 C23 UTC 145 Minutes Accept the 27 variation sequences in document L2 15 320 for Unicode version 9 0 U 1028 1033 1034 105A 1064 14 L2 04 273 N2827 Proposal of 4 Myanmar Semivowels 2004 06 21L2 04 328 Leca Antoine 2004 08 04 Response to Public Review Issue 37L2 05 216 N2966 Letter of Recommendation re Encoding of Myanmar Alphabets in Unicode 2005 07 28L2 05 178 Hosken Martin 2005 07 29 A Sgaw Karen Unicode Proposal Extending Myanmar to Incorporate Sgaw KarenL2 05 184 Hosken Martin 2005 08 01 Dissociating Myanmar Medials A Proposal to Encode Separate Myanmar MedialsL2 06 029 Everson Michael 2006 03 20 Further discussion of Myanmar medialsL2 06 085 Kai Ka ōnohi 2006 03 20 Myanmar issues re WG2 N3043 L2 06 077 L2 06 092 Whistler Ken 2006 03 24 Discussion of AA and TALL AA Disunification for MyanmarL2 06 093 N3061 Hosken Martin 2006 03 27 Supporting Discussion for the Encoding of seven additional Myanmar CharactersL2 06 094 Tun Ngwe 2006 03 27 Support for Transcoding to our Myazedi Unicode ClientsL2 06 130 Concerns Regarding WG2 N3043R Myanmar Additions to 10646 2006 04 06L2 06 078 N3044 Everson Michael Hosken Martin 2006 04 08 Proposal for encoding Mon and S gaw Karen characters in the UCSL2 06 118 N3079 Response to UTC contribution N3069 Concerns Regarding WG2 N3043R Myanmar Additions to 10646 2006 04 08L2 06 140 N3099 Kolehmainen Erkki I Anderson Deborah Everson Michael Freytag Asmus Moore Lisa Oo Thein Shih Shyeng Tseng Wei Lin Mei Whistler Ken Htut Zaw 2006 04 26 Myanmar Ad Hoc ReportL2 06 161 Wordingham Richard 2006 05 05 Two Issues Relating to N3044 Proposal to encode Mon and S gaw Karen charactersL2 06 108 Moore Lisa 2006 05 25 Motion 107 M6 UTC 107 MinutesN3103 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2006 08 25 M48 16 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48 Mountain View CA USA 2006 04 24 27U 102B 103A 103F 7 L2 02 284 Hosken Martin 2002 07 05 Implementing KinziL2 03 109 Nelson Paul 2003 03 05 Examples of BurmeseL2 06 077R N3043R Everson Michael et al 2006 03 01 Proposal to encode seven additional Myanmar characters in the UCSN3069 Concerns Regarding WG2 N3043R Myanmar Additions 2006 04 06L2 06 117R N3078R Proposed additions to ISO IEC 10646 2003 Amendment 3 2006 04 12L2 06 213 Everson Michael 2006 05 17 Requirements leading to the characters added to the Myanmar scriptL2 06 108 Moore Lisa 2006 05 25 C 13 UTC 107 MinutesN3103 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2006 08 25 M48 15 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48 Mountain View CA USA 2006 04 24 27L2 08 126 Muller Eric 2008 03 18 UTC Letter Ballot Myanmar in Unicode 5 1L2 08 127 Muller Eric 2008 03 18 Results UTC Letter Ballot Myanmar in Unicode 5 1U 1035 1 L2 06 249 N3115 Everson Michael Hosken Martin 2006 07 24 One additional Myanmar character for Mon for PDAM 3 2L2 06 231 Moore Lisa 2006 08 17 C 11 UTC 108 MinutesN3153 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2007 02 16 M49 1a Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST Akihabara Tokyo Japan 2006 09 25 29U 1065 1074 16 L2 06 163 Wordingham Richard 2006 05 07 Non Shan Issues Relating to N3080 Preliminary proposal for encoding Karen Shan and Kayah CharactersL2 06 303 N3142 Everson Michael Hosken Martin 2006 09 08 Proposal for encoding Myanmar characters for Karen and Kayah in the UCSN3153 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2007 02 16 M49 16 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST Akihabara Tokyo Japan 2006 09 25 29L2 06 324R2 Moore Lisa 2006 11 29 Consensus 109 C6 UTC 109 Minutes5 2 U 109A 109D 4 L2 08 145 N3436 Everson Michael 2008 04 14 Ordering and character properties for Myanmar Khamti Shan charactersL2 08 181R N3423R Hosken Martin 2008 04 29 Proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar BlocksL2 08 276 N3492 Hosken Martin 2008 08 04 Extended proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar Blocks 2008 08 04 L2 08 318 N3453 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2008 08 13 M52 13 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52L2 08 253R2 Moore Lisa 2008 08 19 Myanmar Khamti Shan B15 2 E 4 UTC 116 MinutesL2 08 161R2 Moore Lisa 2008 11 05 Myanmar UTC 115 MinutesL2 08 412 N3553 pdf doc Umamaheswaran V S 2008 11 05 M53 04 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and namesHistoric and nonstandard uses of range EditIn Unicode 1 0 0 part of the current Myanmar block was used for Tibetan In Microsoft Windows collation data referring to the old Tibetan block was retained as late as Windows XP and removed in Windows 2003 5 In Myanmar devices and software localisation often use Zawgyi fonts rather than Unicode compliant fonts 6 These use the same range as the Unicode Myanmar block 0x1000 0x109F and are even applied to text encoded like UTF 8 although Zawgyi text does not officially constitute UTF 8 despite only a subset of the code points being interpreted the same way Zawgyi lacks support for Myanmar script languages other than Burmese but heuristic methods exist for detecting the encoding of text which is assumed to be Burmese 7 References Edit Unicode character database The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2016 07 09 Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2016 07 09 Unicode Character Database Standardized Variation Sequences The Unicode Consortium Hosken Martin 2015 11 03 L2 15 320 Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti Characters PDF Kaplan Michael 2007 08 28 Every character has a story 29 U 1000 H H H H0f40 TIBETAN or MYANMAR LETTER KA depending on when you ask Sorting it all out Nagarajah Sasha Zawgyi vs Unicode Global App Testing Loomis Steven R Cornelius Craig 2019 Myanmar Scripts and Languages Frequently Asked Questions Unicode Consortium Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Myanmar Unicode block amp oldid 1110320378, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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