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Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia, Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.
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History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Oriya block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 78 1.1 U+0B56 1 (to be determined) 4.0 U+0B35, 0B71 2 N2425 N2525 5.1 U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 3 N3235R N3272 doc) 6.0 U+0B72..0B77 6 N3471 doc) 13.0 U+0B55 1 N5023 18.0 U+0B53..0B54 2
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