Kharoshthi (Unicode block)
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Kharoshthi
|rangestart = 10A00
|rangeend = 10A5F
|script1 = Kharoshthi
|alphabets = Gandhari
Sanskrit
|4_1 = 65
|11_0 = 3
|note = {{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}
}}
Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE.
{{Unicode chart Kharoshthi}}
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kharoshthi block:
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| Version | {{nobr|Final code points}} | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="6" | 4.1 | rowspan="6" width="180" | U+10A00..10A03, 10A05..10A06, 10A0C..10A13, 10A15..10A17, 10A19..10A33, 10A38..10A3A, 10A3F..10A47, 10A50..10A58 | rowspan="6" | 65 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02203r2-kharoshthi.pdf L2/02-203R2]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2524.pdf N2524] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646|date=2002-09-19|first1=Andrew|last1=Glass|first2=Stefan|last2=Baums|first3=Richard|last3=Salomon|author-link3=Richard G. Salomon (professor of Asian studies)}} |
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02424-kharoshthi-props.txt L2/02-424]}} | {{Citation|title=Supplementary Information to Accompany L2/02-203R2, Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi|date=2002-11-20|first=Rick|last=McGowan}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03314-kharoshthi.pdf L2/03-314R2]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2732.pdf N2732] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646|date=2003-09-18|first1=Andrew|last1=Glass|first2=Stefan|last2=Baums|first3=Richard|last3=Salomon}} | |||
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2956.doc N2956] | {{Citation|title=Unicode Consortium Liaison Report for WG2 Meeting #47|date=2005-08-12|first=Asmus|last=Freytag|section=Representative glyphs for U+17D2 and U+10A3F}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05180.htm L2/05-180]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #104 Minutes|date=2005-08-17|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Consensus 104-C12|quote=Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box...}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2953.pdf N2953 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2953.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15|date=2006-02-16|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M47.16 (Miscellaneous glyph defects)}} | ||||
| rowspan="3" | 11.0 | rowspan="3" | U+10A34..10A35, 10A48 | rowspan="3" | 3 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17012-kharosthi-add.pdf L2/17-012]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4812-kharosthi-add.pdf N4812] | {{Citation|title=Additional Characters for Kharoṣṭhī Script|date=2017-01-17|first1=Andrew|last1=Glass|first2=Stefan|last2=Baums}} |
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17037-script-ad-hoc.pdf L2/17-037]}} | {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals|date=2017-01-21|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Roozbeh|last3=Pournader|first4=Andrew|last4=Glass|first5=Laurențiu|last5=Iancu|first6=Lisa|last6=Moore|first7=Hai|last7=Liang|first8=Richard|last8=Ishida|first9=Karan|last9=Misra|first10=Rick|last10=McGowan|section=8. Kharoshthi}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17016.htm L2/17-016]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #150 Minutes|date=2017-02-08|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=C.2.1}} | ||||
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References
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