Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.
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History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bengali block:
Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA 89 4.0 U+09BD 1 N2425 4.1 U+09CE 1 N2261 N2253 N2810 N2811 N2812 N2813 N2809 5.2 U+09FB 1 doc) N3311 7.0 U+0980 1 N4157 10.0 U+09FC 1 N4739 U+09FD 1 N4739 11.0 U+09FE 1 N4808
See also Bengali Supplement (Unicode block)
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