Tamil (Unicode block)

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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.

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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
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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 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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

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