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Lao Script for Windows is an extension to the Windows® operating system to make it
easy to use Lao language with Windows® applications, and has been widely
used in Lao PDR and around the world over the past 20 years.
The current version (LaoScript 8) can be used with either 32-bit or 64-bit
applications on Windows 7 and Windows 8, while remaining compatible with
Windows® XP and Windows Vista.
LaoScript 8 may now be installed and used as one of three editions:
- The Free Edition, for
personal, non-commercial use only,
provides Lao fonts and
Lao keyboard mapping using either phonetic
layout Lao typewriter layout with automatic text wrapping at
Lao word boundaries.
- The Standard Edition extends the Free Edition
by adding
Lao Add-Ins for Microsoft® Word and other applications,
with menus that provide Lao spell-checking, sorting according to Lao
dictionary order, font conversion and other functions.
- The Gold Edition provides all the capabilities
of the Standard Edition and adds an automatic
Thai to Lao translation function, which
may also be used interactively to improve translation quality.
No license or activation is required for the Free Edition.
However, a license must be purchased and activated on-line to use either the
Standard Edition or the
Gold Edition of LaoScript 8.
All business, organizational and government users of LaoScript 8 should purchase a license.
All editions of LaoScript 8 include and support the use of both
Lao Unicode fonts and many other fonts (such as
the popular Saysettha Lao) using
older coding conventions for Lao.
Many Lao Unicode OpenType fonts are
compatible with applications on both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple's OS-X and iOS
platforms.
However fonts such as Saysettha OT and Microsoft's DokChampa
which were designed to use Microsoft® OpenType support may not be rendered correctly
by OS-X applications, and older applications generally do not
always support Lao Unicode.
LaoScript 8 News- Update! LaoScript 8 installs correctly on Windows 8
and may be used for keyboard mapping with either desktop or 'Metro'
(tiled) applications. For more information, see
LaoScript 8 and Windows 8.
- New, more widely compatible, "Saysettha Web" font available for web pages.
(See downloads for more details.)
- Latest version LaoScript 8.1.5 released.
- Added Lao Add-On for LibreOffice/OpenOffice, with Lao text wrapping,
spell-checking, sorting, and text conversion for Writer and Calc.
(Build 8.1.5) Also available as a separate download.
(See downloads for more details.)
- LaoScript 8 now includes
Lao Add-Ins for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Access.
(Build 8.1.4)
- Enhanced "Saysettha 95" series fonts added and supported for use with
compatible applications. (Build 8.1.2)
- Free Edition now available for LaoScript 8 (not for Lao Script for Windows, Version 7).
(Build 8.1 and later)
- LaoScript 8 now supports silent installation and automatic activation.
(Build 8.1 and later)
- LaoScript 8 now includes Lao "ribbon" menus for Word, Excel and PowerPoint
(for Office 2007 and later).
- For more information, please go to
LaoScript 8 Features and Release Notes
Other Information for Lao computer users
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