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Unicode Status for Pahawh Hmong

In The Unicode Standard, Pahawh Hmong script implementation is discussed in Chapter 16: Southeast Asia-I — Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam.

The Pahawh Hmong script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 7.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode chart
Pahawh Hmong16B00..16B8F7.0U16B00.pdf

A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 2009-05-04 Preliminary proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3616, L2/09-145)

  • 2009-09-14 Proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3667, L2/09-252)

  • 2012-01-20 Final proposal to encode the Pahawh Hmong script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N4175, L2/12-013)

  • 2012-07-24 Additional evidence of use of Pahawh Hmong clan logographs — Michael Everson (WG2 N4298, L2/12-271)