L2/10-083 From: Eric Muller Date: 02/05/2010 09:45 AM Subject: Indic abbreviation sign A number of North Indic scripts use a particular sign to indicate abbreviations; generally, this sign has the shape of a small circle. Unicode currently encodes two characters: U+0970 DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN and U+110BB KAITHI ABBREVIATION SIGN, with the script property values Common and Kaithi respectively. Gujarati is known to use an abbreviation sign of this type (and there is indeed a proposal to encode it: L2/09-330); it is very likely that the Bengali script also uses an abbreviation sign of this type. As for the dandas, a number of different approaches are possible: use U+0970 with all scripts, encode script-specific abbreviation signs, or a combination thereof. This document proposes this general principle for the North Indic abbreviation sign: encode script-specific abbreviation signs of this type for North Indic scripts as evidence of their use is found. In addition, this document also recommends to change the script property of U+0970 to Devanagari.