Lao (Unicode block)

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.

Lao
Range	U+0E80..U+0EFF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Lao
Major alphabets	Lao Pali
Assigned	83 code points
Unused	45 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)
15.0 (2022)	83 (+1)
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.[1][2][3]

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[a]	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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names