# Oriya (Unicode block)

Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia, Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.

## Block

Oriya Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+0B0x | | ଁ | ଂ | ଃ | | ଅ | ଆ | ଇ | ଈ | ଉ | ଊ | ଋ | ଌ | | | ଏ |
| U+0B1x | ଐ | | | ଓ | ଔ | କ | ଖ | ଗ | ଘ | ଙ | ଚ | ଛ | ଜ | ଝ | ଞ | ଟ |
| U+0B2x | ଠ | ଡ | ଢ | ଣ | ତ | ଥ | ଦ | ଧ | ନ | | ପ | ଫ | ବ | ଭ | ମ | ଯ |
| U+0B3x | ର | | ଲ | ଳ | | ଵ | ଶ | ଷ | ସ | ହ | | | ଼ | ଽ | ା | ି |
| U+0B4x | ୀ | ୁ | ୂ | ୃ | ୄ | | | େ | ୈ | | | ୋ | ୌ | ୍ | | |
| U+0B5x | | | | | | ୕ | ୖ | ୗ | | | | | ଡ଼ | ଢ଼ | | ୟ |
| U+0B6x | ୠ | ୡ | ୢ | ୣ | | | ୦ | ୧ | ୨ | ୩ | ୪ | ୫ | ୬ | ୭ | ୮ | ୯ |
| U+0B7x | ୰ | ୱ | ୲ | ୳ | ୴ | ୵ | ୶ | ୷ | | | | | | | | |
| 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 Oriya block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | UTC/1991-056 | | | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | UTC/1991-057 | | | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | UTC/1991-048B | | | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/01-303 | | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/01-304 | | Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/01-305 | | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/01-430R | | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/20-055 | | Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions |
| 1.0.0 | U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 | 78 | | L2/20-015R | | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 |
| 1.1 | U+0B56 | 1 | | | | (to be determined) |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/01-431R | | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/01-405R | | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/02-425 | | Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-20), On Oriya VA and WA |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | | N2525 | Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-21), On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/03-102 | | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts |
| 4.0 | U+0B35, 0B71 | 2 | | L2/03-101.7 | | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04 |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/03-102 | | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/03-101.7 | | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04 |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/05-063 | | Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Bengali & Oriya", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/05-070 | | McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/05-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/07-095R | N3235R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/07-118R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/07-196 | N3272 | Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam |
| 5.1 | U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 | 3 | | L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 |
| 6.0 | U+0B72..0B77 | 6 | | L2/07-413 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs |
| 6.0 | U+0B72..0B77 | 6 | | L2/08-199 | N3471 | Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 6.0 | U+0B72..0B77 | 6 | | L2/08-199R | | Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 6.0 | U+0B72..0B77 | 6 | | L2/08-161R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Oriya Fraction Signs", UTC #115 Minutes |
| 6.0 | U+0B72..0B77 | 6 | | L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 |
| 13.0 | U+0B55 | 1 | | L2/19-005R2 | N5023 | Evans, Lorna (2019-01-01), Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE |
| 13.0 | U+0B55 | 1 | | L2/19-047 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "11. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals |
| 13.0 | U+0B55 | 1 | | L2/19-008 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "D.4", UTC #158 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+0B55 | 1 | | L2/19-286 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "9. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals |
| 13.0 | U+0B55 | 1 | | L2/19-270 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "D.9", UTC #160 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↑ See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R |||||||