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Gurmukhi

U+0A00 – U+0A7F   (2560–2687)

The Gurmukhi script is used for the Indo-Aryan Punjabi language, which is widely spoken in Pakistan and is also used in parts of India, where it is closely associated with Sikhs. Punjabi can also be written in the Devanagari and Arabic scripts. You can see some Punjabi using Unicode Gurmukhi on the 123BuildIt Multilingual E-commerce Solutions Web site and the Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus Web site.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Gurmukhi Unicode from Windows XP onwards. Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install an Apple Language Kit that provides Gurmukhi suppport in various applications. Mac OS X incorporates support for Gurmukhi from version 10.2 onwards.

Gurmukhi Unicode Web pages with UTF-8 encoding are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) for Windows, Mozilla, Opera 6 (or higher), and the Safari and iCab Web browsers for Macintosh.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts AnmolUni, AnmolUniBani, Arial Unicode MS, CN-Arial, Code2000, Free Idg Serif, Free Sans, Free Serif, Lohit Punjabi, Raavi, Saab, Saraswati5 and Sun-ExtA; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Gurmukhi MT and Gurmukhi MTS; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Gurmukhi MT.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0A00.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991-2008 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2008.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 23rd December 2009