Unicode Status for Thai
In The Unicode Standard, Thai script implementation is discussed in Chapter 16: Southeast Asia-I — Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam
.
The Thai script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thai | 0E00..0E7F | 1.0 | U0E00.pdf |
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1999-04-29 ISO/IEC 14651 (informative annex) Thai String Collation — Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (L2/99-136
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2001-03-16 N2332 - Thai Character Names in FDIS 8859-11 — Surayuth Boonmatat (WG2 N2332
, L2/01-122) -
2001-03-16 Change of Thai Names requested (8859-11) — Michael Everson (L2/01-120
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2001-03-16 FDIS 8859-11 – Thai — Johan van Wingen (L2/01-121
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2001-07-02 Revised Text of FCD 8859-11, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet — Johan van Wingen, Surayuth Boonmatat (L2/01-289
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2002-01-14 Character Properties for avagrahas, etc. — Kenneth Whistler (L2/02-017
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2002-01-14 Character Properties for repetition marks — Kenneth Whistler (L2/02-016
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2003-06-12 Thai and Lao collation weighting rules — Kent Karlsson (L2/03-185
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2004-03-09 Ordering rules for Khmer, Thai, and Lao; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 N2717.doc
, L2/04-110) -
2004-03-09 Ordering rules for Khmer, Thai, and Lao; suggestions for annex C.2 changes and a new annex B.5 — Kent Karlsson (WG2 N2718.doc
, L2/04-111) -
2004-07-18 Two problems in Thai rendering — Eric Muller (L2/04-332
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2006-03-06 Thai collation errors — James Clark (L2/06-082
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2006-07-27 Re: document Sk vs Lm vs — Martin Hosken (L2/06-243
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2009-08-03 Grapheme break changes, especially for Thai and Lao — Peter Edberg (L2/09-265
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2010-09-17 Proposal to change UAX#29 in response to Thai, Lao, Tai Dam user needs — Martin Hosken (L2/10-460
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2010-11-01 Proposal not to encode 4 minority Thai letters for Patani Malay — Martin Hosken (L2/10-451
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2011-02-03 Response to UTC Suggestions Regarding Thai in UAX#29 — Martin Hosken (L2/11-051
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2011-04-18 Proposal to change grapheme extending properties of various characters — Martin Hosken (L2/11-114
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2012-01-26 Grapheme-break related properties for U+0E2F THAI CHARACTER PAIYANNOI’ — Nattapong Siralappanich, V S Umamaheswaran (L2/12-038
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2018-07-07 Canonical Ordering of Marks in Thai Script — Peter Constable (L2/18-216
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2018-07-23 Rendering of and Prescriptions for Marks in the Multilingual Thai Script — Richard Wordingham (L2/18-248
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2022-06-14 Response to PRI 451 — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-114
)- UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)
- UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121