Oriya (Unicode block)

Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Oriya (Odia), Khondi, and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Oriya characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Oriya
Range	U+0B00..U+0B7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Oriya
Major alphabets	Oriya Khondi Santali
Assigned	91 code points
Unused	37 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0	78 (+78)
1.0.1	79 (+1)
4.0	81 (+2)
5.1	84 (+3)
6.0	90 (+6)
13.0	91 (+1)
Note: [1][2][3]

Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.

Block

Oriya^[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+0B0x

ଁ

ଂ

ଃ

ଅ

ଆ

ଇ

ଈ

ଉ

ଊ

ଋ

ଌ

ଏ

U+0B1x

ଐ

ଓ

ଔ

କ

ଖ

ଗ

ଘ

ଙ

ଚ

ଛ

ଜ

ଝ

ଞ

ଟ

U+0B2x

ଠ

ଡ

ଢ

ଣ

ତ

ଥ

ଦ

ଧ

ନ

ପ

ଫ

ବ

ଭ

ମ

ଯ

U+0B3x

ର

ଲ

ଳ

ଵ

ଶ

ଷ

ସ

ହ

଼

ଽ

ା

ି

U+0B4x

ୀ

ୁ

ୂ

ୃ

ୄ

େ

ୈ

ୋ

ୌ

୍

U+0B5x

୕

ୖ

ୗ

ଡ଼

ଢ଼

ୟ

U+0B6x

ୠ

ୡ

ୢ

ୣ

୦

୧

୨

୩

୪

୫

୬

୭

୮

୯

U+0B7x

୰

ୱ

୲

୳

୴

୵

୶

୷

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version	Final code points[lower-alpha 1]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70	78	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
				L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
				L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0”
				L2/20-055		Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
				L2/20-015		Moore, Lisa (2020-01-23), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
1.0.1	U+0B56	1				(to be determined)
4.0	U+0B35, 0B71	2		L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2]		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
				L2/01-405R		Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R
				L2/02-117	N2425	McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
				L2/02-425		Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-20), On Oriya VA and WA
					N2525	Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-21), On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS
				L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.7		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
5.1	U+0B44, 0B62..0B63	3		L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.7		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
				L2/05-063		Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Bengali & Oriya", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode
				L2/05-070		McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report
				L2/05-026		Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes
				L2/07-095R	N3235R	Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
				L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
				L2/07-196	N3272	Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam
				L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
6.0	U+0B72..0B77	6		L2/07-413		Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs
				L2/08-199	N3471	Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/08-199R		Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Oriya Fraction Signs", UTC #115 Minutes
				L2/08-412	N3553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
13.0	U+0B55	1		L2/19-005R2	N5023	Evans, Lorna (2019-01-01), Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE
				L2/19-047		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "11. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals
				L2/19-008		Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "D.4", UTC #158 Minutes
				L2/19-286		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "9. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals
				L2/19-270		Moore, Lisa (2019-08-02), "D.9", UTC #160 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

References

1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.