Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Adopt-A-Character Grant to Support Indic Scripts

Old Sogdian Sample image The Adopt-a-Character program has awarded a grant to support further development of the following four Indic scripts in the Unicode Standard:
  • Hanifi Rohingya, a script in current use in Myanmar and Bangladesh
  • Nandinagari, a Brahmi-based historic script formerly used in South India
  • Old Sogdian, a group of historic scripts formerly used in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Western China
  • Sogdian, derived from Old Sogdian, a group of historic scripts formerly used in Central Asia
The goal of this grant is to enable the development of encoding proposals that can be included in the Unicode Standard. The work will be done by Anshuman Pandey under the direction of Deborah Anderson (SEI, UC Berkeley) and Rick McGowan (Unicode Consortium).