| Lao | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0E80..U+0EFF (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Lao |
| Major alphabets | Lao Pali |
| Assigned | 83 code points |
| Unused | 45 reserved code points |
| Source standards | Thai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 70 (+70) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 65 (-5) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 67 (+2) |
| 12.0 (2019) | 82 (+15) |
| 15.0 (2022) | 83 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| 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.
| Lao [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+0E8x | ກ | ຂ | ຄ | ຆ | ງ | ຈ | ຉ | ຊ | ຌ | ຍ | ຎ | ຏ | ||||
| U+0E9x | ຐ | ຑ | ຒ | ຓ | ດ | ຕ | ຖ | ທ | ຘ | ນ | ບ | ປ | ຜ | ຝ | ພ | ຟ |
| U+0EAx | ຠ | ມ | ຢ | ຣ | ລ | ວ | ຨ | ຩ | ສ | ຫ | ຬ | ອ | ຮ | ຯ | ||
| U+0EBx | ະ | ັ | າ | ຳ | ິ | ີ | ຶ | ື | ຸ | ູ | ຺ | ົ | ຼ | ຽ | ||
| U+0ECx | ເ | ແ | ໂ | ໃ | ໄ | ໆ | ່ | ້ | ໊ | ໋ | ໌ | ໍ | ໎ | |||
| U+0EDx | ໐ | ໑ | ໒ | ໓ | ໔ | ໕ | ໖ | ໗ | ໘ | ໙ | ໜ | ໝ | ໞ | ໟ | ||
| U+0EEx | ||||||||||||||||
| U+0EFx | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
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), "Thai, Lao", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple | |||||
| UTC/1992-xxx | Freytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), "B. Indic SC", Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox | |||||
| L2/02-017 | Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc. | |||||
| L2/05-357 | N3137 | West, Andrew (2005-10-30), Note on Lao Character Names | ||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Lao Names (C.15)", UTC #105 Minutes | |||||
| N3103 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.36", 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), "Consensus 125-C20", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | |||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02i", 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), "6. Lao", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-222 | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.4", UTC #152 Minutes | |||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.14", 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), "11. Lao", 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), "16. Lao", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/21-123 | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "B.1 Section 16, Lao", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 | |||||
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