Myanmar Extended-A is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing Myanmar characters for writing the
Khamti Shan and
Aiton Aiton may refer to:
People
*Aiton (surname)
*Standard author abbreviation of William Aiton (1731 – 1793), Scottish botanist
Places
* Aiton, Cluj, a commune in Romania
*Aiton, Savoie
Aiton is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergn ...
languages.
Block
The block has eleven variation sequences defined for
standardized variants. They use (VS01) to denote the dotted letters used for the Khamti, Aiton, and
Phake languages.
(Note that this is font dependent. For example, the
Padauk font supports some of the dotted forms.)
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Myanmar Extended-A block:
See also
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Myanmar (Unicode block)
Myanmar is a Unicode block containing characters for the Burmese, Mon, Shan, Palaung, and the Karen languages of Myanmar, as well as the Aiton and Phake languages of Northeast India. It is also used to write Pali and Sanskrit in Myanmar.
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Myanmar Extended-B (Unicode block)
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Myanmar Extended-C (Unicode block)
References
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Unicode blocks