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Tamil
RangeU+0B80..U+0BFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsTamil
Major alphabetsTamil
Saurashtra
Assigned72 code points
Unused56 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)61 (+61)
4.0 (2003)69 (+8)
4.1 (2005)71 (+2)
5.1 (2008)72 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Tamil is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tamil, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil Nadu India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B82..U+0BCD were a direct copy of the Tamil characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Tamil
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+0B8x ஂ ஃ அ ஆ இ ஈ உ ஊ எ ஏ
U+0B9x ஐ ஒ ஓ ஔ க ங ச ஜ ஞ ட
U+0BAx ண த ந ன ப ம ய
U+0BBx ர ற ல ள ழ வ ஶ ஷ ஸ ஹ ா ி
U+0BCx ீ ு ூ ெ ே ை ொ ோ ௌ ்
U+0BDx ௐ ௗ
U+0BEx ௦ ௧ ௨ ௩ ௪ ௫ ௬ ௭ ௮ ௯
U+0BFx ௰ ௱ ௲ ௳ ௴ ௵ ௶ ௷ ௸ ௹ ௺
Notes
1. As of Unicode version 16.0
2. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version Final code points Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0B82..0B83, 0B85..0B8A, 0B8E..0B90, 0B92..0B95, 0B99..0B9A, 0B9C, 0B9E..0B9F, 0BA3..0BA4, 0BA8..0BAA, 0BAE..0BB5, 0BB7..0BB9, 0BBE..0BC2, 0BC6..0BC8, 0BCA..0BCD, 0BD7, 0BE7..0BF2 61 UTC/1991-056 Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057 Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048B Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
L2/01-303 Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304 Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305 McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-295R Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "Motion 88-M9", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88, The UTC approves changing the general category type of U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mn to Lo.
L2/01-430R McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/05-185 Documentation for KSSA as Non-conjunct Consonant and Conjunct Consonant in Tamil, 2005-07-25
L2/05-180 Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Tamil (C.12.1), KSSA in Tamil (C.12)", UTC #104 Minutes
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "B.10.15 ", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
4.0 U+0BF3..0BFA 8 L2/01-375R N2381R Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-10-11), Proposal to add eight Tamil symbols
L2/01-420 Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "d. Tamil sign additions", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
L2/01-405R Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C23", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001
L2/02-112 N2421 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-03-15), Feedback on Tamil Symbols in PDAM2-10646-1 from the INFITT WG on Unicode
L2/02-154 N2403 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "7.11", Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
L2/12-106 Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), "2. Tamil", Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts
L2/12-147 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "II. TAMIL", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-150 Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Tamil credit sign (U+0BF7) glyph shape from Printed Books
L2/12-180 Manivannan, Mani (2012-05-05), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations
L2/12-384 Ganesan, Naga (2012-06-11), Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign
L2/13-028 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "19.2", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
N4480 Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-06), Request to change two glyphs of existing Tamil symbols
L2/17-424 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0
L2/18-039 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-007 Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039.
4.1 U+0BB6 1 L2/03-273 Proposal to add Tamil grantha character SHA, 2003-07-29
L2/03-278 Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-07-29), Review of a Proposal placed before UTC bearing No. L2/03-273, Proposal to encode Tamil SHA
N2618 Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-09-14), Review of a Proposal placed before Unicode Technical Committee entitled 'Proposal to add Tamil Letter SHA' (L2/03-273)
U+0BE6 1 L2/04-073 N2741 Kaplan, Michael (2004-02-01), Proposal to add Tamil Digit Zero
5.1 U+0BD0 1 L2/06-184 N3119 Proposal to add Tamil Om, 2006-04-28
L2/06-108 Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.23", UTC #107 Minutes
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.5c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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