Vai (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Vai
Range	U+A500..U+A63F (320 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Vai
Major alphabets	Vai
Assigned	300 code points
Unused	20 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1	300 (+300)
Note:

Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

History

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

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.1	U+A500..A62B	300	L2/04-374		Riley, Charles (2004-11-06), Status report on Vai encoding
			L2/05-053		Riley, Charles L.; Rivera, José R.; Sherman, Tombekai V.; Glavy, Jason (2005-01-31), Preliminary codechart for encoding Vai into the SMP of the UCS
			L2/05-180		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes
				N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
			L2/06-136		McGowan, Rick (2006-04-18), Regarding WG2 N3081, proposal for additions to Vai
			L2/06-120R	N3081R	Everson, Michael (2006-04-23), Proposal for addition of Vai characters to the UCS
			L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes
				N3103 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
			L2/07-104	N3243R	Everson, Michael (2007-04-18), Proposal to add additional historic syllables for Vai
			L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/05-171		Riley, Charles (2008-07-21), List of Contributors and Participants in the Vai Proposal for Unicode