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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Lao[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0E80.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+0E8x</td><td></td><td>ກ</td><td>ຂ</td><td></td><td>ຄ</td><td></td><td>ຆ</td><td>ງ</td><td>ຈ</td><td>ຉ</td><td>ຊ</td><td></td><td>ຌ</td><td>ຍ</td><td>ຎ</td><td>ຏ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0E9x</td><td>ຐ</td><td>ຑ</td><td>ຒ</td><td>ຓ</td><td>ດ</td><td>ຕ</td><td>ຖ</td><td>ທ</td><td>ຘ</td><td>ນ</td><td>ບ</td><td>ປ</td><td>ຜ</td><td>ຝ</td><td>ພ</td><td>ຟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0EAx</td><td>ຠ</td><td>ມ</td><td>ຢ</td><td>ຣ</td><td></td><td>ລ</td><td></td><td>ວ</td><td>ຨ</td><td>ຩ</td><td>ສ</td><td>ຫ</td><td>ຬ</td><td>ອ</td><td>ຮ</td><td>ຯ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0EBx</td><td>ະ</td><td>ັ</td><td>າ</td><td>ຳ</td><td>ິ</td><td>ີ</td><td>ຶ</td><td>ື</td><td>ຸ</td><td>ູ</td><td>຺</td><td>ົ</td><td>ຼ</td><td>ຽ</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+0ECx</td><td>ເ</td><td>ແ</td><td>ໂ</td><td>ໃ</td><td>ໄ</td><td></td><td>ໆ</td><td></td><td>່</td><td>້</td><td>໊</td><td>໋</td><td>໌</td><td>ໍ</td><td>໎</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+0EDx</td><td>໐</td><td>໑</td><td>໒</td><td>໓</td><td>໔</td><td>໕</td><td>໖</td><td>໗</td><td>໘</td><td>໙</td><td></td><td></td><td>ໜ</td><td>ໝ</td><td>ໞ</td><td>ໟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0EEx</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+0EFx</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Lao block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/Unicode_Consortium/mJQClyDW">UTC</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="7">1.0.0</td><td rowspan="7">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</td><td rowspan="7">65</td><td>UTC/1991-058</td><td></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken, <i>Thai, Lao</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1991-UTC/UTC46-draft.txt">UTC/1991-048B</a></td><td></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "Thai, Lao", <i>Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1992-UTC/UTC52-draft.txt">UTC/1992-xxx</a></td><td></td><td></td><td>Freytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), "B. Indic SC", <i>Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02017-whistler.pdf">L2/02-017</a></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), <i>Character Properties for avagrahas, etc.</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05357-west-lao.pdf">L2/05-357</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3137.pdf">N3137</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Andrew_West_(linguist)/Tz7wDf38">West, Andrew</a> (2005-10-30), <i>Note on Lao Character Names</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05279.htm">L2/05-279</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Lao Names (C.15)", <i>UTC #105 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.pdf">N3103 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.36", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27</i></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">6.1</td><td rowspan="3">U+0EDE..0EDF</td><td rowspan="3">2</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10335r-n3893r-lao-hosken.pdf">L2/10-335</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3893.pdf">N3893R</a></td><td>Hosken, Martin (2010-10-05), <i>Proposal to add minority characters to Lao script</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10416.htm">L2/10-416R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C20", <i>UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.pdf">N3903 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M57.02i", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57</i>, 2011-03-31</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4">12.0</td><td rowspan="4">U+0E86, 0E89, 0E8C, 0E8E..0E93, 0E98, 0EA0, 0EA8..0EA9, 0EAC, 0EBA</td><td rowspan="4">15</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17106r-lao-for-pali.pdf">L2/17-106R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4861-17106r-lao-for-pali.pdf">N4861</a></td><td>Rajan, Vinodh; Mitchell, Ben; Jansche, Martin; Brawer, Sascha (2017-07-19), <i>Revised Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17255-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/17-255</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "6. Lao", <i>Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17222.htm">L2/17-222</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.4", <i>UTC #152 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.pdf">N4953 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M66.14", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66</i>, 2018-03-23</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5">15.0</td><td rowspan="5">U+0ECE</td><td rowspan="5">1</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21093-lao-yamakkan.pdf">L2/21-093</a></td><td></td><td>Rajan, Vinodh; Bhikkhu, Jayasāro (2021-04-21), <i>Proposal to Encode Lao Yamakkan</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21073-script-adhoc-rept.pdf">L2/21-073</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), "11. Lao", <i>Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21143-lao-yamakkan-resp.pdf">L2/21-143</a></td><td></td><td>Rajan, Vinodh (2021-07-14), <i>Response to Comments on Lao Yamakkan</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21130-script-adhoc-rept.pdf">L2/21-130</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "16. Lao", <i>Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21123.htm">L2/21-123</a></td><td></td><td>Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "B.1 Section 16, Lao", <i>Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>