Lao (Unicode block)

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
RangeU+0E80..U+0EFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsLao
Major alphabetsLao
Pali
Assigned83 code points
Unused45 reserved code points
Source standardsThai 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]

Block

Lao[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0E8x
U+0E9x
U+0EAx
U+0EBx
U+0ECx
U+0EDx
U+0EEx
U+0EFx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+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..0EDD65UTC/1991-058Whistler, Ken, Thai, Lao
UTC/1991-048BWhistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "Thai, Lao", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
UTC/1992-xxxFreytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), "B. Indic SC", Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox
L2/02-017Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc.
L2/05-357N3137West, Andrew (2005-10-30), Note on Lao Character Names
L2/05-279Moore, 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
6.1U+0EDE..0EDF2L2/10-335N3893RHosken, Martin (2010-10-05), Proposal to add minority characters to Lao script
L2/10-416RMoore, 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
12.0U+0E86, 0E89, 0E8C, 0E8E..0E93, 0E98, 0EA0, 0EA8..0EA9, 0EAC, 0EBA15L2/17-106RN4861Rajan, Vinodh; Mitchell, Ben; Jansche, Martin; Brawer, Sascha (2017-07-19), Revised Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali
L2/17-255Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "6. Lao", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-222Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.4", UTC #152 Minutes
N4953 (pdf, doc)"M66.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
15.0U+0ECE1L2/21-093Rajan, Vinodh; Bhikkhu, Jayasāro (2021-04-21), Proposal to Encode Lao Yamakkan
L2/21-073Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), "11. Lao", Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-143Rajan, Vinodh (2021-07-14), Response to Comments on Lao Yamakkan
L2/21-130Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "16. Lao", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-123Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "B.1 Section 16, Lao", 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" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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