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Unicode Status for Kayah Li

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

The Kayah Li script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Kayah LiA900..A92F5.1UA900

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

  • 1999-09-06 Kayah Li - proposed code table — Michael Everson (L2/99-268)

  • 2006-01-11 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Kayah Li script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3024, L2/06-004)

  • 2006-03-09 Proposal for encoding the Kayah Li script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3038, L2/06-073)

  • 2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457, L2/08-118)

  • 2013-06-26 Proposal to Change Script and Script_Extensions properties for U+A92E — Lorna Evans (L2/13-137)

  • 2022-04-11 Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 18, 2022 - April 11, 2022) — David Corbett (L2/22-063)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 21.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 6 for decision and action items)