Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters of the Malayalam script. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada 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 Malayalam block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0D02..0D03, 0D05..0D0C, 0D0E..0D10, 0D12..0D28, 0D2A..0D39, 0D3E..0D43, 0D46..0D48, 0D4A..0D4D, 0D57, 0D60..0D61, 0D66..0D6F 78 N2971 doc) 5.1 U+0D3D, 0D44, 0D62, 0D79 4 N3015 doc) doc) U+0D63 1 N3235R N3272 doc) U+0D70..0D75 6 N2970 doc) U+0D7A..0D7F 6 N3126 doc) txt) 6.0 U+0D29, 0D3A 2 N4216 doc) N3494 N3295 doc) U+0D4E 1 txt) N3676 doc) 7.0 U+0D01 1 N3964 N4103 8.0 U+0D5F 1 N4312 doc) 9.0 U+0D4F 1 N4538 doc) U+0D54 1 N4540 doc) U+0D55 1 doc) N3295 doc) N4539 U+0D56 1 N4428 doc) doc) U+0D58..0D5E, 0D76..0D78 10 N4429 doc) doc) 10.0 U+0D00 1 N4517 doc) U+0D3B 1 U+0D3C 1 13.0 U+0D04 1 N4965R doc)
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