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Bengali (Unicode block)

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Bengali
RangeU+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBengali
Major alphabetsBengali, Assamese
Assigned96 code points
Unused32 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)89 (+89)
4.0 (2003)90 (+1)
4.1 (2005)91 (+1)
5.2 (2009)92 (+1)
7.0 (2014)93 (+1)
10.0 (2017)95 (+2)
11.0 (2018)96 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

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.

Block

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Bengali[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+098x
U+099x
U+09Ax
U+09Bx ি
U+09Cx
U+09Dx
U+09Ex
U+09Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bengali block:

References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.