Lao (Unicode block)

Lao
Range	U+0E80..U+0EFF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Lao
Assigned	82 code points
Unused	46 reserved code points
Source standards	Thai 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)
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.

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.

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

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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:

Version	Final code points	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
				L2/02-017		Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc.
				L2/05-357		West, Andrew (2005-10-30), Note on Lao Character Names
6.1	U+0EDE..0EDF	2		L2/10-335	N3893R	Hosken, Martin (2010-10-05), Proposal to add minority characters to Lao script
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), Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)
				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