This was reviewed last year at UTC #182 and the Script Encoding Working Group recommended no action at this time, based on a few factors including dependence on the Tulu-Tigalari proposal, L2/22-031, the authors of which recommendation more research. See the SEW recommendations to UTC #182 in L2/25-010<https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/25-010>.
Peter From: Unicode <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy via Unicode Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 3:09 AM To: Unicode Public General Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Tulu-Tigalari digits and numerals 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]<mailto:[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.
