Tibetan (Unicode block)


Tibetan is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tibetan, Dzongkha, and other languages of China, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, northern India, eastern Pakistan and Russia. The Tibetan Unicode block is unique for having been allocated as a fallacious virama-based encoding that were unable to distinguish visible srog med and conjunct consonant correctly for version 1.0, removed from the Unicode Standard when unifying with ISO 10646 for version 1.1, then reintroduced as an explicit root/subjoined encoding, with a larger block size in version 2.0.

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History

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