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Title: The Status of Stanadization of Lao Character Set
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The Status of Stanadization of Lao Character Set
- Phonpasit PHISSAMAY
- Director of Information Technology Center
- Science Technology and Environment Agency
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The IT element in Lao PDR
- 25,000 PCs, 70 LANs, 3 ISPs
- Less than 1 of population who have permenantly
Used IT facilities. 2000 Internet Users - 32 IT Service Companies (21 Foreign share)
- 2 Advanced training, 6 Colleges and 14 Regular
- Not yet completed the National IT policy and
Master plan
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The Status of Lao Character Set Development
- In 1985 First Lao code table Duang Jan
- In 1992 STEA-Thailand develop the Lao Code Table
for DOS-Based. - In 1993 Many code table for Window based (Lao
Script for Window) - General System Company develop the Lao code table
for IBM PC and AS-400, which encouraged
department of Standardization to adopted as
National Standard.
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The Issue of Lao Character Set
- No harmonization and standardization of Lao code
table among local developers - The National Standard did not used by the users
- The ISO did not adopted the National Standard of
Lao code table, but Lao character Set already
existed with ISO 10646 and UNICODE
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The problem resolution
- To get the compromise and consensus among local
developer - To create the National Project of Lao codepage
- Do an assessment of ISO 10646 and UNICODE. Do
they meet or need to be modifed to merge with Lao
culture and local users demand. - Solving the current used code table
- Develop the new code table based on new national
standard.
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Thank you
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