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Unicode Status for Tai Viet

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

The Tai Viet script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Tai VietAA80..AADF5.2UAA80.pdf

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

  • 2006-01-30 Unified Tai Script for Unicode — Ngo Trung Viet, Jim Brase (L2/06-041)

  • 2007-01-03 Workshop on Encoding and Digitizing Thai Scripts — Jim Brase (L2/07-008)

  • 2007-02-01 Comments on Viet Tay Proposal — Peter Constable (L2/07-056)

  • 2007-02-06 Tay Viet Script for Unicode — Jim Brase (L2/07-039)

  • 2007-03-20 Proposal to encode the Tai Viet script in the UCS — Jim Brase (WG2 N3220, L2/07-099)

  • 2007-03-21 Support for the proposal (N3220) to encode the Tai Viet script — Vũ Văn Điền (Vietnam N.B.) (WG2 N3221.doc, L2/07-100)

  • 2008-05-09 Writing Tai Don - Additional characters needed for the Tai Viet script — Jim Brase (L2/08-217)

  • 2010-09-17 Proposal to change UAX#29 in response to Thai, Lao, Tai Dam user needs — Martin Hosken (L2/10-460)

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

  • 2022-12-16 Proposal to encode additional Tai Viet characters for the Jinping Dai — Kushim Jiang (L2/23-023)

    • Recommendations to UTC #174 January 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-012) (See point B.19.)