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Unicode Status for Lisu

In The Unicode Standard, Lisu script implementation is discussed in Chapter 18: East Asia.

The Old Lisu script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2 under the name Lisu. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
LisuA4D0..A4FF5.2UA4D0.pdf
Lisu Supplement11FB0..11FBF13.0U11FB0.pdf

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

  • 2007-09-11 Towards an encoding of the Fraser script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3323, L2/07-297)

  • 2007-09-15 Fraser’s Lisu orthography: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding — Richard Cook (WG2 N3326, L2/07-294)

  • 2007-10-10 Proposal for encoding the Old Lisu script in the BMP of the UCS — China N.B. (WG2 N3317, L2/07-357)

  • 2007-12-29 Documentation on legacy encodings of the Old Lisu script — China N.B. (L2/07-423)

  • 2008-01-28 Proposal for encoding the Old Lisu script in the BMP of the UCS — China N.B. (L2/08-019)

  • 2009-07-10 Discussion and proposal of default Lisu sort order — Martin Hosken (L2/09-247)

  • 2019-01-16 Proposal to encode LISU LETTER YHA — Lorna Evans (L2/18-338)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 17.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See D.2 for decision and action items)