Cham (Unicode block)
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|blockname = Cham
|rangestart = AA00
|rangeend = AA5F
|script1 = Cham
|alphabets = Eastern Cham
|5_1 = 83
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Cham is a Unicode block containing characters of the Cham script, which is used for writing the Cham language, primarily used for the Eastern dialect in Cambodia and Vietnam.
A separate block for Western Cham, used in Cambodia, was first proposed to Unicode in 2016. As of May 2022 it is still being finalized.{{cite web | url=https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=z6dlrcd64h | title=ScriptSource - Entry - Unicode Status (Western Cham) }}
{{Unicode chart Cham}}
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cham block:
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| Version | {{nobr|Final code points}} | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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| rowspan="10" | 5.1 | rowspan="10" width="180" | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | rowspan="10" | 83 | N1126 | {{Citation|title=Cham script [proposal summary form]|date=1994-10-14}} | |
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1203.txt N1203] | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva|date=1995-05-03|first1=V. S.|last1=Umamaheswaran|first2=Mike|last2=Ksar|section=6.1.2.2}} | ||||
| {{nobr|L2/97-143}} | [https://www.evertype.com/standards/tai/n1578-cham.pdf N1578] | {{Citation|title=Cham encoding discussion|date=1997-04-06|first=Michael|last=Everson|author-link=Michael Everson}} | |||
| {{nobr|L2/97-124}} | [https://www.evertype.com/standards/ch/ch.html N1559] | {{Citation|title=Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646|date=1997-05-01|first=Michael|last=Everson}} | |||
| {{nobr|L2/97-288}} | [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1603.doc N1603] | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997|date=1997-10-24|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=8.22}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/n1960.pdf L2/99-081]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1960.pdf N1960] | {{Citation|title=Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts|date=1999-02-01|first=Michael|last=Everson}} | |||
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1997.pdf N1997] | {{Citation|title=Response to Michael Everson|date=1999-02-26|first=Ngo Than|last=Nhan}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06257-n3120-cham.pdf L2/06-257]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3120.pdf N3120] | {{Citation|title=Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS|date=2006-08-06|first=Michael|last=Everson}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06231.htm L2/06-231]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #108 Minutes|date=2006-08-17|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=C.14}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3153.pdf N3153 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3153.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29|date=2007-02-16|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M49.18}} | ||||
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