# Garay (Unicode block)

Garay is a Unicode block containing letters for the Garay alphabet, developed in 1961 and used as a way to write the Wolof language.
Garay Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+10D4x | 𐵀 | 𐵁 | 𐵂 | 𐵃 | 𐵄 | 𐵅 | 𐵆 | 𐵇 | 𐵈 | 𐵉 | 𐵊 | 𐵋 | 𐵌 | 𐵍 | 𐵎 | 𐵏 |
| U+10D5x | 𐵐 | 𐵑 | 𐵒 | 𐵓 | 𐵔 | 𐵕 | 𐵖 | 𐵗 | 𐵘 | 𐵙 | 𐵚 | 𐵛 | 𐵜 | 𐵝 | 𐵞 | 𐵟 |
| U+10D6x | 𐵠 | 𐵡 | 𐵢 | 𐵣 | 𐵤 | 𐵥 | | | | 𐵩 | 𐵪 | 𐵫 | 𐵬 | 𐵭 | 𐵮 | 𐵯 |
| U+10D7x | 𐵰 | 𐵱 | 𐵲 | 𐵳 | 𐵴 | 𐵵 | 𐵶 | 𐵷 | 𐵸 | 𐵹 | 𐵺 | 𐵻 | 𐵼 | 𐵽 | 𐵾 | 𐵿 |
| U+10D8x | 𐶀 | 𐶁 | 𐶂 | 𐶃 | 𐶄 | 𐶅 | | | | | | | | | 𐶎 | 𐶏 |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Garay block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/11-181 | N4044 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-09), Introducing the Wolof Alphabet of Assane Faye |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/12-139 | N4261 | Everson, Michael (2012-04-26), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Garay script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/13-028 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "21", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/16-069 | N4709 | Everson, Michael (2016-03-22), Proposal for encoding the Garay script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/16-156 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "8. Garay", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | | N4873R (pdf, doc) | "10.2.8 Garay script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/17-322 | N4875 | Riley, Charles (2017-09-09), Report on the Garay script 2017 |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/18-039 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "3. Garay", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/18-168 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "Garay", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/19-163 | | Rovenchak, Andrij; Riley, Charles (2019-02-11), Feedback on Garay |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/19-173 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "6. Garay", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/22-023 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "5 Garay", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/22-048 | | Rovenchak, Andrij; Faye, Abdou Souleye; Riley, Charles L. (2022-02-19), Consideration of the encoding of Garay with updated user feedback (revised) |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/22-068 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-04-15), "3 Garay", Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/22-061 | | Constable, Peter (2022-07-27), "Consensus 171-C18", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 171, Accept 69 Garay characters in a new Garay block |
| 16.0 | U+10D40..10D65, 10D69..10D85, 10D8E..10D8F | 69 | L2/23-231 | | Constable, Peter (2023-12-08), "Section 2.2", UTC #177 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||