Tamil (Unicode block)

See also: Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Tamil

Range| U+0B80..U+0BFF
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Tamil
Major alphabets| Tamil
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, 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.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Block

## History

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

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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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), 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), 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), UTC #104 Minutes
| L2/10-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), 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), WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
| L2/01-405R |  | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), 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), Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
| L2/12-106 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts
| L2/12-147 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), 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), 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), Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
| L2/18-007 |  | Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), 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), UTC #107 Minutes
|  | N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), 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

* Tamil script
* Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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