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Lao (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Lao
RangeU+0E80..U+0EFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsLao
Major alphabetsLao
Pali
Assigned82 code points
Unused46 reserved code points
Source standardsThai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533
Unicode version history
1.0.070 (+70)
1.0.165 (-5)
6.167 (+2)
12.082 (+15)
Note: Five characters were removed from the Lao block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Lao is a Unicode block containing characters for the languages of Laos. The characters of the Lao block are allocated so as to be equivalent to the similarly positioned characters of the Thai block immediately preceding it.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Lao block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0E81..0E82, 0E84, 0E87..0E88, 0E8A, 0E8D, 0E94..0E97, 0E99..0E9F, 0EA1..0EA3, 0EA5, 0EA7, 0EAA..0EAB, 0EAD..0EB9, 0EBB..0EBD, 0EC0..0EC4, 0EC6, 0EC8..0ECD, 0ED0..0ED9, 0EDC..0EDD 65 UTC/1991-058 Whistler, Ken, Thai, Lao 
UTC/1991-048B Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple 
UTC/1992-xxx Freytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox 
L2/02-017 Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc. 
L2/05-279 Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes 
N3103 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27 
6.1 U+0EDE..0EDF 2 L2/10-335 N3893R Hosken, Martin (2010-10-05), Proposal to add minority characters to Lao script 
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes 
N3903 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 
12.0 U+0E86, 0E89, 0E8C, 0E8E..0E93, 0E98, 0EA0, 0EA8..0EA9, 0EAC, 0EBA 15 L2/17-106R N4861 Rajan, Vinodh; Mitchell, Ben; Jansche, Martin; Brawer, Sascha (2017-07-19), Revised Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali 
L2/17-255 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-222 Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), UTC #152 Minutes 
N4953 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 
15.0 U+0ECE 1 L2/21-093 Rajan, Vinodh; Bhikkhu, Jayasāro (2021-04-21), Proposal to Encode Lao Yamakkan 
L2/21-073 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-143 Rajan, Vinodh (2021-07-14), Response to Comments on Lao Yamakkan 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. Retrieved 2016-07-09. 
  2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 



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