Tamil (Unicode block)

Tamil
Range U+0B80..U+0BFF
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Tamil
Major alphabets Tamil
Badaga
Saurashtra
Assigned 72 code points
Unused 56 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 61 (+61)
4.0 69 (+8)
4.1 71 (+2)
5.1 72 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Tamil is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tamil, Badaga, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil Nadu India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B02..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[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0B8x
U+0B9x
U+0BAx
U+0BBx ி
U+0BCx
U+0BDx
U+0BEx
U+0BFx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+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..0BF261(to be determined)
L2/01-303Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-430RMcGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0”
4.0U+0BF3..0BFA8L2/01-375RN2381RUmamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-10-11), Proposal to add eight Tamil symbols
L2/02-112N2421Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-03-15), Feedback on Tamil Symbols in PDAM2-10646-1 from the INFITT WG on Unicode
L2/12-150Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Tamil credit sign (U+0BF7) glyph shape from Printed Books
L2/12-384Ganesan, N. (2012-06-11), Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign
N4488Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-06), Request to change two glyphs of existing Tamil symbols
4.1U+0BB61L2/03-273Proposal to add Tamil grantha character SHA, 2003-07-29
L2/03-278Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-07-29), Review of a Proposal placed before UTC bearing No. L2/03-273, Proposal to encode Tamil SHA
L2/03-278RN2618Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-09-14), Review of a Proposal placed before Unicode Technical Committee entitled 'Proposal to add Tamil Letter SHA' (L2/03-273)
U+0BE61L2/04-073N2741Kaplan, Michael (2004-02-01), Proposal to add Tamil Digit Zero
5.1U+0BD01L2/06-184Proposal to add Tamil Om, 2006-04-28
  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 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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