Script Encoding Initiative Contributions

The Consortium is particularly grateful to the work of the Script Encoding Initiative (SEI), under the direction of Dr. Deborah Anderson. The SEI project, located in the department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, has undertaken the important work of preparing proposals for encoding for less-commonly used scripts and those of scholarly or historic interest. The SEI organization has engaged with the user communities, prepared proposals, provided fonts, and shepherded many proposals successfully through both the Unicode Technical Committee and the JTC1/SC2/WG2 ISO/IEC 10646 standardization processes.

The new scripts, symbol sets and other repertoire additions proposed by SEI and published in the Unicode Standard are shown in the table below, organized by Unicode version. Acknowledgements for individual authors of specific SEI proposals are given in the list of Contributors to The Unicode Standard.

Version (Year)	Description	Script
16.0 (2024)
	New script encoding: Garay	Garay
	New script encoding: Sunuwar	Sunuwar
	New script encoding: Todhri	Todhri
	Repertoire addition: Egyptian Hieroglyphs	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
15.0 (2022)
	Repertoire addition: Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
14.0 (2021)
	New script encoding: Cypro-Minoan	Cypro-Minoan
	New script encoding: Old Uyghur	Old Uyghur
	New script encoding: Tangsa	Tangsa
	New script encoding: Toto	Toto
	New script encoding: Vithkuqi	Vithkuqi
	Repertoire addition: Extended IPA and other phonetic letters	Latin
13.0 (2020)
	New script encoding: Dives Akuru	Dives Akuru
	New script encoding: Khitan Small Script	Khitan Small Script
	New script encoding: Yezidi	Yezidi
12.0 (2019)
	New script encoding: Elymaic	Elymaic
	New script encoding: Nandinagari	Nandinagari
	New script encoding: Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
	New script encoding: Wancho	Wancho
	New symbol set encoding: Ottoman Siyaq Numbers	Common
11.0 (2018)
	New script encoding: Dogra	Dogra
	New script encoding: Gunjala Gondi	Gunjala Gondi
	New script encoding: Hanifi Rohingya	Hanifi Rohingya
	New script encoding: Makasar	Makasar
	New script encoding: Medefaidrin	Medefaidrin
	New script encoding: Old Sogdian	Old Sogdian
	New symbol set encoding: Indic Siyaq Numbers	Common
10.0 (2017)
	New script encoding: Masaram Gondi	Masaram Gondi
	New script encoding: Soyombo	Soyombo
	New script encoding: Zanabazar Square	Zanabazar Square
9.0 (2016)
	New script encoding: Adlam	Adlam
	New script encoding: Bhaiksuki	Bhaiksuki
	New script encoding: Newa	Newa
	New script encoding: Tangut	Tangut
8.0 (2015)
	New script encoding: Anatolian Hieroglyphs	Anatolian Hieroglyphs
	New script encoding: Hatran	Hatran
	New script encoding: Multani	Multani
	New script encoding: Old Hungarian	Old Hungarian
	Repertoire addition: Early Dynastic Cuneiform	Cuneiform
	Repertoire addition: Meroitic Cursive numbers	Meroitic Cursive
	Repertoire addition: Sharada punctuation and signs	Sharada
	Repertoire addition: Siddham section signs and alternate letters	Siddham
7.0 (2014)
	New script encoding: Bassa Vah	Bassa Vah
	New script encoding: Caucasian Albanian	Caucasian Albanian
	New script encoding: Duployan (shorthand)	Duployan
	New script encoding: Elbasan	Elbasan
	New script encoding: Khojki	Khojki
	New script encoding: Khudawadi	Khudawadi
	New script encoding: Linear A	Linear A
	New script encoding: Mahajani	Mahajani
	New script encoding: Manichaean	Manichaean
	New script encoding: Mende Kikakui	Mende Kikakui
	New script encoding: Modi	Modi
	New script encoding: Nabataean	Nabataean
	New script encoding: Old North Arabian	Old North Arabian
	New script encoding: Old Permic	Old Permic
	New script encoding: Pahawh Hmong	Pahawh Hmong
	New script encoding: Palmyrene	Palmyrene
	New script encoding: Pau Cin Hau	Pau Cin Hau
	New script encoding: Psalter Pahlavi	Psalter Pahlavi
	New script encoding: Siddham	Siddham
	New script encoding: Tirhuta	Tirhuta
	New script encoding: Warang Citi	Warang Citi
	New symbol set encoding: Coptic Epact Numbers	Common
	New symbol set encoding: Webdings and Wingdings	Common
6.1 (2012)
	New script encoding: Chakma	Chakma
	New script encoding: Meroitic Hieroglyphs	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
	New script encoding: Meroitic Cursive	Meroitic Cursive
	New script encoding: Miao	Miao
	New script encoding: Sharada	Sharada
	New script encoding: Sora Sompeng	Sora Sompeng
	New script encoding: Takri	Takri
	New symbol set encoding: Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols	Arabic
	Repertoire addition: Meetei Mayek Extensions	Meetei Mayek
	Repertoire addition: Sundanese Supplement	Sundanese
6.0 (2010)
	New script encoding: Batak	Batak
	New script encoding: Brahmi	Brahmi
	New script encoding: Mandaic	Mandaic
	New symbol set encoding: Alchemical Symbols	Common
	Repertoire addition: Arabic letters for Kashmiri	Arabic
	Repertoire addition: Bamum historic syllables	Bamum
5.2 (2009)
	New script encoding: Avestan	Avestan
	New script encoding: Bamum	Bamum
	New script encoding: Egyptian Hieroglyphs	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
	New script encoding: Imperial Aramaic	Imperial Aramaic
	New script encoding: Inscriptional Pahlavi	Inscriptional Pahlavi
	New script encoding: Inscriptional Parthian	Inscriptional Parthian
	New script encoding: Javanese	Javanese
	New script encoding: Kaithi	Kaithi
	New script encoding: Meetei Mayek	Meetei Mayek
	New script encoding: Old South Arabian	Old South Arabian
	New script encoding: Old Turkic	Old Turkic
	New script encoding: Samaritan	Samaritan
	New script encoding: Tai Tham (Lanna)	Tai Tham
	New script encoding: Tai Viet	Tai Viet
	New symbol set encoding: Common Indic Number Forms	Common
	New symbol set encoding: Rumi Numeral Symbols	Arabic
	Repertoire addition: Devanagari Extended	Devanagari
	Repertoire addition: UCAS Extended	Canadian Syllabics
	Repertoire addition: Vedic Extensions	Inherited
5.1 (2008)
	New script encoding: Carian	Carian
	New script encoding: Cham	Cham
	New script encoding: Kayah Li	Kayah Li
	New script encoding: Lepcha	Lepcha
	New script encoding: Lycian	Lycian
	New script encoding: Lydian	Lydian
	New script encoding: Ol Chiki	Ol Chiki
	New script encoding: Rejang	Rejang
	New script encoding: Saurashtra	Saurashtra
	New script encoding: Sundanese	Sundanese
	New script encoding: Vai	Vai
	Repertoire addition: Cyrillic historic letters	Cyrillic
	Repertoire addition: Latin Medievalist letters	Latin
	Repertoire addition: Myanmar letters for minority languages	Myanmar
5.0 (2006)
	New script encoding: Balinese	Balinese
	New script encoding: N'Ko	N'Ko
	New script encoding: Phoenician	Phoenician
	New script encoding: Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform	Cuneiform
4.1 (2005)
	New script encoding: Buginese	Buginese
	New script encoding: Coptic	Coptic
	New script encoding: Glagolitic	Glagolitic
	New script encoding: Kharoshthi	Kharoshthi
	New script encoding: Old Persian Cuneiform	Old Persian
	Repertoire addition: Georgian letters	Georgian
4.0 (2003)
	New script encoding: Cypriot Syllabary	Cypriot
	New script encoding: Linear B	Linear B
	New script encoding: Tai Le	Tai Le
	New symbol set encoding: Aegean Numbers	Common

 

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