Lao (Unicode block)
title: "Lao (Unicode block)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["unicode-blocks", "lao-language"] topic_path: "general/unicode-blocks" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_(Unicode_block)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| blockname | Lao |
| rangestart | 0E80 |
| rangeend | 0EFF |
| script1 | Lao |
| alphabets | Lao |
| Pali | |
| 1_0_0 | 70 |
| 1_0_1 | -5 |
| 6_1 | 2 |
| 12_0 | 15 |
| 15_0 | 1 |
| sources | Thai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533 |
| note | Five characters were removed from the Lao block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. |
| :: |
|blockname = Lao |rangestart = 0E80 |rangeend = 0EFF |script1 = Lao |alphabets = Lao Pali |1_0_0 = 70 |1_0_1 = -5 |6_1 = 2 |12_0 = 15 |15_0 = 1 |sources = Thai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533 |note = Five characters were removed from the Lao block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.
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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
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Lao block:
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| Version | 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 | |||
| N3137 | |||||
| doc) | |||||
| 6.1 | U+0EDE..0EDF | 2 | N3893R | ||
| doc) | |||||
| 12.0 | U+0E86, 0E89, 0E8C, 0E8E..0E93, 0E98, 0EA0, 0EA8..0EA9, 0EAC, 0EBA | 15 | N4861 | ||
| doc) | |||||
| 15.0 | U+0ECE | 1 | |||
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References
References
- (1992-11-03). "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard.
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
- Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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