Cham (Unicode block)
# Cham (Unicode block)

Cham is a Unicode block containing characters of the Cham script, which is used for writing the Cham language, primarily used for the Eastern dialect in Cambodia and Vietnam.

A separate block for Western Cham, used in Cambodia, was first proposed to Unicode in 2016. As of May 2022 it is still being finalized.

Cham Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U+AA0x | ꨀ | ꨁ | ꨂ | ꨃ | ꨄ | ꨅ | ꨆ | ꨇ | ꨈ | ꨉ | ꨊ | ꨋ | ꨌ | ꨍ | ꨎ | ꨏ |
| U+AA1x | ꨐ | ꨑ | ꨒ | ꨓ | ꨔ | ꨕ | ꨖ | ꨗ | ꨘ | ꨙ | ꨚ | ꨛ | ꨜ | ꨝ | ꨞ | ꨟ |
| U+AA2x | ꨠ | ꨡ | ꨢ | ꨣ | ꨤ | ꨥ | ꨦ | ꨧ | ꨨ | ꨩ | ꨪ | ꨫ | ꨬ | ꨭ | ꨮ | ꨯ |
| U+AA3x | ꨰ | ꨱ | ꨲ | ꨳ | ꨴ | ꨵ | ꨶ | | | | | | | | | |
| U+AA4x | ꩀ | ꩁ | ꩂ | ꩃ | ꩄ | ꩅ | ꩆ | ꩇ | ꩈ | ꩉ | ꩊ | ꩋ | ꩌ | ꩍ | | |
| U+AA5x | ꩐ | ꩑ | ꩒ | ꩓ | ꩔ | ꩕ | ꩖ | ꩗ | ꩘ | ꩙ | | | ꩜ | ꩝ | ꩞ | ꩟ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 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 Cham block:

| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | | N1126 | Cham script [proposal summary form], 1994-10-14 |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | | N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.2.2", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/97-143 | N1578 | Everson, Michael (1997-04-06), Cham encoding discussion |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/97-124 | N1559 | Everson, Michael (1997-05-01), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.22", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/99-081 | N1960 | Everson, Michael (1999-02-01), Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | | N1997 | Nhan, Ngo Than (1999-02-26), Response to Michael Everson |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/06-257 | N3120 | Everson, Michael (2006-08-06), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | L2/06-231 | | Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "C.14", UTC #108 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 | | N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||
