Also some other Tulu websites exhibit these digits, including in public signages:
https://www.easytulu.com/p/tulu-lipi-alphabets.html Also why this proposal for these numerals was still not considered? https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25020-tulu-tigalari-numerals.pdf (here the additional decimal digits, and numerals ten and one hundred, were proposed in a contiguous range 113F0-113FB instead of using the Kannada and Telugu blocks layout) Le mar. 2 juin 2026 à 11:30, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> a écrit : > Is there a reason for not encoding these Tulu-Tigalari digits (0 to 9) and > numerals (10, 100) ? > > Suggested code points in the Tulu-Tigalari block (U+11380-113FF, allocated > in Unicode 16.0). > > (1) Using the same layout as in the Kannada block (U+0C80-0CFF) or the > Telugu block (0C00-0C7F) for their decimal digits: > > 113E6...113EF: TULU-TIGALARI DIGIT ZERO...NINE > > (I'm not sure if we can give them the "decimal digit" character property: > digit zero is apparently a later addition, when traditional numerals used > specific multipliers for tens and hundreds, however the existence of zero > is documented and visible in existing modern usage, and the two other > numerals may be used in legacy numerals for integers 1 to 999,999) > > (2) Using additional numerals with the same layout as in the Telugu block > (0C00-0C7F) for its additional fraction digits: > > 113F8: TULU-TIGALARI NUMERAL TEN > 113F9: TULU-TIGALARI NUMERAL ONE HUNDRED > > Some images are listed in Wikimedia Commons (including an example in > modern usage for a wedding invitation in Tulu, printed in the Kannada and > Tulu-Tigalari script), and a few alphabet charts including these numerals: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu-Tigalari_numerals > > One convincing point is that this appears in a *printed* document > (intended for some sizable audience in the Tulu community and families), > and that there may already existing fonts for them (even if they don't use > Unicode mappings), and not just a personal creation. > >
