Thai (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Thai
RangeU+0E00..U+0E7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsThai (86 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabetsThai
Northern Thai
Pali
Assigned87 code points
Unused41 reserved code points
Source standardsThai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533
Unicode version history
1.0.092 (+92)
1.0.187 (-5)
Note: Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Thai is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thai, Lanna Tai, and Pali languages. It is based on the Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Thai block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0E01..0E3A, 0E3F..0E5B 87 UTC/1991-058 Whistler, Ken, Thai, Lao 
UTC/1991-048B Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple 
UTC/1992-xxx Freytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox 
L2/02-017 Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc. 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. Retrieved 2016-07-09. 
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.