Makasar is a Unicode block containing characters for Makasar script (also known as "Old Makassarese" or "Makassarese bird script" in English-language scholarly works). The script was used historically in South Sulawesi, Indonesia for writing the Makassarese language.
Block
| Makasar[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+11EEx | 𑻠 | 𑻡 | 𑻢 | 𑻣 | 𑻤 | 𑻥 | 𑻦 | 𑻧 | 𑻨 | 𑻩 | 𑻪 | 𑻫 | 𑻬 | 𑻭 | 𑻮 | 𑻯 |
| U+11EFx | 𑻰 | 𑻱 | 𑻲 | 𑻳 | 𑻴 | 𑻵 | 𑻶 | 𑻷 | 𑻸 | |||||||
| Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Makasar block:
| Version | Final code points3 | Count | L2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+11EE0..11EF8 | 25 | L2/15-100 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-06-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Makassarese Bird Script |
| L2/15-179 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-07-18), Proposal to Encode the Old Makassarese Script | |||
| L2/15-312 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "4. Makasar Script", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals | |||
| L2/15-233 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02), Proposal to encode the Makasar script | |||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.4", UTC #145 Minutes | |||
References
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02). "L2/15-233: Proposal to encode the Makasar script in Unicode" (PDF). https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15233-makasar.pdf ↩
"Chapter 17: Indonesia and Oceania". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. 978-1-936213-19-1 ↩
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↩