Telugu is a Unicode block containing characters for the Telugu, Gondi, and Lambadi languages of Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C01..U+0C4D were a direct copy of the Telugu characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
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History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Telugu block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0C01..0C03, 0C05..0C0C, 0C0E..0C10, 0C12..0C28, 0C2A..0C33, 0C35..0C39, 0C3E..0C44, 0C46..0C48, 0C4A..0C4D, 0C55..0C56, 0C60..0C61, 0C66..0C6F 80 5.1 U+0C3D, 0C58..0C59, 0C62..0C63, 0C78..0C7F 13 N3116R doc) 7.0 U+0C00 1 N3964 N4103 U+0C34 1 N4214 doc) 8.0 U+0C5A 1 N4215 doc) 11.0 U+0C04 1 N4798 12.0 U+0C77 1 N4860 doc) 14.0 U+0C3C 1 U+0C5D 1 17.0 U+0C5C 1
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