Bengali
RangeU+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBengali
Major alphabetsBengali, Assamese
Assigned96 code points
Unused32 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)89 (+89)
4.0 (2003)90 (+1)
4.1 (2005)91 (+1)
5.2 (2009)92 (+1)
7.0 (2014)93 (+1)
10.0 (2017)95 (+2)
11.0 (2018)96 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.

Block

Bengali[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+098x
U+099x
U+09Ax
U+09Bx ি
U+09Cx
U+09Dx
U+09Ex
U+09Fx
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 Bengali block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA89UTC/1991-056Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048BWhistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
L2/01-303Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-430RMcGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/03-113Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
L2/08-288Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values
L2/08-361Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)", UTC #117 Minutes
L2/09-225RMoore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.1.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
L2/20-055Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
L2/20-015Moore, Lisa (2020-01-23), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
4.0U+09BD1L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2]McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
L2/01-405RMoore, 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
L2/02-117N2425McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/03-104Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
4.1U+09CE1L2/00-303N2261Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23
L2/00-304N2261-1Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23
L2/01-050N2253Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.12 Proposal to synchronize Bengali standard with 10646", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/04-060Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-062Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-262N2810Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document)
L2/04-192N2811Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode
L2/04-233N2812Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta
L2/04-252N2813Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback
L2/04-264N2809Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
5.2U+09FB1N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-192N3311Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Bengali", UTC #112 Minutes
7.0U+09801L2/11-359Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
L2/11-403Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), "IV. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/11-408Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals
L2/12-079Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents
L2/12-121N4157Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali
L2/12-147Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VII. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-184Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
L2/12-277Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
10.0U+09FC1L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-161Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.1", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
U+09FD1L2/15-172RA, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0U+09FE1L2/16-322N4808A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "4. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.2", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-130Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

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.
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