| Blockname: | Bengali |
| Rangestart: | 0980 |
| Rangeend: | 09FF |
| Script1: | Bengali |
| Alphabets: | Bengali, Assamese |
| 1 0 0: | 89 |
| 4 0: | 1 |
| 4 1: | 1 |
| 5 2: | 1 |
| 7 0: | 1 |
| 10 0: | 2 |
| 11 0: | 1 |
| Sources: | ISCII |
| Note: | [1] [2] |
Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bengali block:
| Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA | 89 | |||||
| 4.0 | U+09BD | 1 | |||||
| N2425 | |||||||
| 4.1 | U+09CE | 1 | N2261 | ||||
| N2253 | |||||||
| N2810 | |||||||
| N2811 | |||||||
| N2812 | |||||||
| N2813 | |||||||
| N2809 | |||||||
| 5.2 | U+09FB | 1 | doc) | ||||
| N3311 | |||||||
| 7.0 | U+0980 | 1 | |||||
| N4157 | |||||||
| 10.0 | U+09FC | 1 | |||||
| N4739 | |||||||
| U+09FD | 1 | ||||||
| N4739 | |||||||
| 11.0 | U+09FE | 1 | N4808 | ||||