Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, 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 Kannada block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF 80 4.0 U+0CBC..0CBD 2 N2425 5.0 U+0CE2..0CE3 2 N2860 U+0CF1..0CF2 2 N2860 7.0 U+0C81 1 N3964 N4103 9.0 U+0C80 1 N4591 doc) 11.0 U+0C84 1 14.0 U+0CDD 1 15.0 U+0CF3 1 17.0 U+0CDC 1
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