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Vai

U+A500 – U+A63F   (42240–42559)

The Vai range was introduced with version 5.1.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane. The Vai script was invented in the 1830s and is used by the Vai people in Liberia. It is a simple, syllabic script that is written left-to-right.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Vai Unicode from Windows 7 onwards.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Code2000, Dukor, Ebrima (in Windows 7), Vai Slant Unicode and Wakor.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA500.pdf.

Copyright © 2008–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2008 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2008.

Created 15th April 2008   Last updated 29th November 2009