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.
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Block
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ 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:
| Version | Final code points1 | 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 | |||||
References
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↩