Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Devanagari block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0901..0903, 0905..0939, 093C..094D, 0950..0954, 0958..0970 104 N667 N1999 N2055 N2103 N2466 doc) 4.0 U+0904 1 N2425 4.1 U+097D 1 N2543 5.0 U+097B..097C, 097E..097F 4 N2934 doc) 5.1 U+0971 1 N3111, N3125 doc) U+0972 1 N3249 doc) 5.2 U+0900, 094E, 0955, 0979..097A 5 N3235R N3290 N3366 N3385 N3383R N3456R doc) N3488R3 doc) 6.0 U+093A..093B, 094F, 0956..0957, 0973..0977 10 N3480 N3731 N3710 N3725 doc) 7.0 U+0978 1 N3970 N4103
See also Devanagari in Unicode
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