L2/15-337 2015-12-03 Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646 Anshuman Pandey Department of History University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
[email protected] December 3, 2015 (Revised: December 3, 2015) 1 Introduction This is a proposal to encode the Zanabazar Square script in the Unicode standard / Universal Character Set (ISO/IEC 10646). It supersedes the following documents: • N3956 L2/10-411 “Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Xawtaa Dorboljin Script in ISO/IEC 10646” • N4041 L2/11-162 “Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646” • N4160 L2/11-379 “Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script” • N4413 L2/13-068 “Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646” • N4471 L2/13-198 “Revised Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646” • N4541 L2/14-024 “Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script in ISO/IEC 10646” The ‘Zanabazar Square’ script was referred to as ‘Mongolian Square’ in previous proposals. The name change is described in section 3.1. Other changes introduced after N4471 L2/13-198 include: the replace- ment of the generic ‘subjoiner’ for controlling conjunct stacks with a character (see sections 4.8 and 4.10); new names for several characters (see section 3.3); new head marks and ornaments (see section 4.11); the reordering of characters within the block; and the reallocation of the script block to a new range within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). These changes are based upon feedback from experts and attempts to align the encoding model with that of other Brahmi-based scripts.