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Lisu (Unicode block)
Unicode character block

Lisu is a Unicode block containing characters of the Fraser alphabet, which is used to write the Lisu language. This alphabet (and by extension the block) consists of glyphs resembling capital letters in the basic Latin alphabet in their standard form and turned.

The addition of the block was subject to significant debate as to whether allocating a new block was necessary for the alphabet or if the turned letters not already in Unicode could instead be added to an existing block for the Latin script. However, since the Lisu letters only visually resemble their Latin counterparts and are semantically different, the former approach was ultimately taken.

This block is supported by a few fonts including Noto Sans Lisu, Lisu Unicode, DejaVu Sans, Horta, Montagel, Quivira, Segoe UI (since Windows 8), and Highway Gothic (Wide, version 2.0.3).

In Unicode 13.0, a new block was also assigned for a single supplementary Lisu character used for the Naxi language, Lisu Supplement.

Lisu[1]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A4Dx
U+A4Ex
U+A4Fx
Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
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History

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

VersionFinal code points1CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+A4D0..A4FF48N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.30", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-297N3323Everson, Michael (2007-09-11), Towards an encoding of the Fraser script in the UCS
L2/07-294N3326Cook, Richard (2007-09-15), Fraser's Lisu orthography
L2/07-357N3317R2Proposal for encoding the Old Lisu script in the BMP of the UCS, 2007-10-10
L2/07-423Documentation on legacy encodings of the Old Lisu script, 2007-12-29
L2/08-019N3424Cheuk, Adrian (2008-01-28), Proposal for encoding the Old Lisu script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/08-003Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Lisu", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/09-247Hosken, Martin (2009-07-10), Discussion and proposal of default Lisu sort order

References

  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names