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Vai (Unicode block)
Unicode character block

Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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Block

Vai[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A50x
U+A51x
U+A52x
U+A53x
U+A54x
U+A55x
U+A56x
U+A57x
U+A58x
U+A59x
U+A5Ax
U+A5Bx
U+A5Cx
U+A5Dx
U+A5Ex
U+A5Fx
U+A60x
U+A61x
U+A62x
U+A63x
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 Vai block:

VersionFinal code points1CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.1U+A500..A62B300L2/04-374Riley, Charles (2004-11-06), Status report on Vai encoding
L2/05-053Riley, Charles L.; Rivera, José R.; Sherman, Tombekai V.; Glavy, Jason (2005-01-31), Preliminary codechart for encoding Vai into the SMP of the UCS
L2/05-159RRN2948REverson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Rivera, José (2005-08-01), Proposal to add the Vai script to the BMP of the UCS
L2/05-180Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Vai (C.2)", UTC #104 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
L2/06-136McGowan, Rick (2006-04-18), Regarding WG2 N3081, proposal for additions to Vai
L2/06-120RN3081REverson, Michael (2006-04-23), Proposal for addition of Vai characters to the UCS
L2/06-108Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.12", UTC #107 Minutes
N3103 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.3, M48.5c [U+A555]", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
L2/07-104N3243REverson, Michael (2007-04-18), Proposal to add additional historic syllables for Vai
L2/07-118R2Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/05-171Riley, Charles (2008-07-21), List of Contributors and Participants in the Vai Proposal for Unicode

References

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