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Unicode Status for Tai Le

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

The Tai Le script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Tai Le1950..197F4.0U1950.pdf

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

  • 1992-11-25 Tai Mau, Tai Nua — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 2000-08-08 Proposal for encoding Dehong Dai script on BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — China N.B. (WG2 N2239r, L2/00-281,L2/00-361)

  • 2000-09-25 Report on Tai Le (Dehong Dai) script — Ad-hoc on Tai Le (Dehong Dai) (WG2 N2292, L2/00-347)

  • 2001-09-14 Proposal Summary Form for Dai scripts — China N.B. (WG2 N2371, L2/01-348)

  • 2001-10-06 Revised proposal for encoding the Tai Le script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2372, L2/01-369)

  • 2003-08-13 Introduction to the Tai Le Script — Daniel Kai (L2/03-258)

  • 2003-08-13 Lepcha, Limbu, Syloti, Saurashtra, Tai Le and Bugis Proposals — Daniel Kai (L2/03-253)

  • 2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc, L2/04-109)

  • 2017-09-22 Preproposal to encode Tai Le Digits — Yihua Wang, Weining Xi (L2/17-338)

  • 2022-07-20 Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 31.)

  • 2023-05-25 Request to update Code Chart and UCD for Tai Le script — Eiso Chan (L2/24-098)

    • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point D.)