Lao (Unicode block)

Lao
RangeU+0E80..U+0EFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsLao
Major alphabetsLao
Pali
Assigned83 code points
Unused45 reserved code points
Source standardsThai 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]

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.

  1. ^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.