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Unicode Status for New Tai Lue

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

The New Tai Lue script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. Since that time the encoding has undergone a number of modifications; the script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
New Tai Lue1980..19DF4.1U1980.pdf

Subsequent to version 4.1, the following characters have been added to the New Tai Lue script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
19AA..19AB5.2n3538.pdf/L2/08-395
19DA5.2n3380.pdf/L2/08-036

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

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

  • 1994-10-10 The Motion on the Coding of Old Xishuang Banna Dai Writing Entering into BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — China N.B. (WG2 N1099.doc (not online))

  • 1999-08-13 On encoding New Tai Lue — Michael Everson (WG2 N2044, L2/99-247)

  • 1999-08-13 Proposal for encoding New Tai Lue script in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646 — Peter Constable (L2/99-243)

  • 2000-08-27 Proposal for encoding Xinshuang Banna Dai script on BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — China N.B. (WG2 N2242.doc, WG2 N2242r, L2/00-290, L2/00-362)

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

  • 2003-09-29 Proposal to encode the Tai Lue script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2634, L2/03-321)

  • 2003-10-16 Comments on N2634, proposal to encode Tai Lue script in the BMP of the UCS — Peter Constable (WG2 N2660, L2/03-363)

  • 2003-10-16 Comments on N2665, opinions on encoding Tai Lue — Peter Constable (WG2 N2671, L2/03-371)

  • 2003-10-20 Opinions on encoding Tai Lue — China N.B. (WG2 N2665.doc, L2/03-365)

  • 2004-04-29 Proposal on encoding New Tai Lue — China N.B. (WG2 N2748, L2/04-147)

  • 2004-05-13 On the ordering of the Tai Lue script in the PDAM code chart — Ireland (WG2 N2761, L2/04-164)

  • 2004-06-15 Evidence Regarding Decomposition of the VA Mark in Tai Lue Script — Peter Constable (WG2 N2826, L2/04-272)

  • 2004-06-23 Consensus on the encoding of the New Tai Lue script in the PDAM code chart — Ad hoc on New Tai Lu (WG2 N2825, L2/04-271)

  • 2008-01-24 A proposal to Encode Alternative New Tai Lue Digit 1 — Martin Hosken (WG2 N3380, L2/08-036)

  • 2008-10-14 Proposal to add two characters for New Tai Lue to the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Yu Kanglong, Chen Zhuang, Wei Lin Mei (WG2 N3538, L2/08-395)

  • 2011-04-18 Proposal to change grapheme extending properties of various characters — Martin Hosken (L2/11-114)

  • 2014-04-23 Proposal to Change the Encoding Model of New Tai Lue — Martin Hosken (L2/14-090)

  • 2014-07-28 Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Laurentiu Iancu (L2/14-170)

  • 2014-08-05 Data on the usage of left-side spacing marks in New Tai Lue — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-195)

  • 2022-05-11 Annotations for New Tai Lue block — Eiso Chan (L2/22-105)

    • Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 10.)