Lao (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Lao

Range| U+0E80..U+0EFF
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Lao
Major alphabets| Lao
Pali
Assigned| 82 code points
Unused| 46 reserved code points
Source standards| Thai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533
Unicode version history
1.0.0| 70 (+70)
1.0.1| 65 (-5)
6.1| 67 (+2)
12.0| 82 (+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

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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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