Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange

Template:IndicText Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) is a coding scheme for representing the Tamil script. The lower 128 codepoints are plain ASCII, the upper 128 codepoints are TSCII-specific. After long years of being used on the Internet by private agreement only, it was successfully registered with the IANA in 2007.^[1]

TSCII encodes the characters in visual (written) order, paralleling the use of the Tamil Typewriter.

Unicode has used the logical order encoding strategy for Tamil, following ISCII, in contrast to the case of Thai, where the visual order encoding grandfathered by TIS-620 was adopted.

The government of Tamil Nadu endorses its own TAB/TAM standards for 8-bit encoding and other, older encoding schemes can still be found on the WWW.

The free etext collection at Project Madurai uses the TSCII encoding, but has already started to provide Unicode versions.

Codepage layout

TSCII
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
8_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௦ 0BE6 128	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௧ 0BE7 129	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ்ரீ 0BB8 0BCD 0BB0 0BC0 130	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஜ 0B9C 131	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஷ 0BB7 132	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ 0BB8 133	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஹ 0BB9 134	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க்ஷ 0B95 0BCD 0BB7 135	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஜ் 0B9C 0BCD 136	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஷ் 0BB7 0BCD 137	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ் 0BB8 0BCD 138	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஹ் 0BB9 0BCD 139	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க்ஷ் 0B95 0BCD 0BB7 0BCD 140	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௨ 0BE8 141	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௩ 0BE9 142	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௪ 0BEA 143
9_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௫ 0BEB 144	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|‘ 2018 145	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|’ 2019 146	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|“ 201C 147	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|” 201D 148	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௬ 0BEC 149	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௭ 0BED 150	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௮ 0BEE 151	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௯ 0BEF 152	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஙு 0B99 0BC1 153	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞு 0B9E 0BC1 154	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஙூ 0B99 0BC2 155	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞூ 0B9E 0BC2 156	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௰ 0BF0 157	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௱ 0BF1 158	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௲ 0BF2 159
A_	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|NBSP 00A0 160	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ா 0BBE 161	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ி 0BBF 162	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ீ 0BC0 163	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ு 0BC1 164	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ூ 0BC2 165	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ெ 0BC6 166	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ே 0BC7 167	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ை 0BC8 168	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|© 00A9 169	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ௗ 0BD7 170	Template:Chset-color-intl \|அ 0B85 171	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஆ 0B86 172	Template:Chset-color-undef\|	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஈ 0B88 174	Template:Chset-color-intl \|உ 0B89 175
B_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஊ 0B8A 176	Template:Chset-color-intl \|எ 0B8E 177	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஏ 0B8F 178	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஐ 0B90 179	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஒ 0B92 180	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஓ 0B93 181	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஔ 0B94 182	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஃ 0B83 183	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க 0B95 184	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ங 0B99 185	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ச 0B9A 186	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞ 0B9E 187	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ட 0B9F 188	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ண 0BA3 189	Template:Chset-color-intl \|த 0BA4 190	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ந 0BA8 191
C_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ப 0BAA 192	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ம 0BAE 193	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ய 0BAF 194	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ர 0BB0 195	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ல 0BB2 196	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வ 0BB5 197	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழ 0BB4 198	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ள 0BB3 199	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ற 0BB1 200	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ன 0BA9 201	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டி 0B9F 0BBF 202	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டீ 0B9F 0BC0 203	Template:Chset-color-intl \|கு 0B95 0BC1 204	Template:Chset-color-intl \|சு 0B9A 0BC1 205	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டு 0B9F 0BC1 206	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ணு 0BA3 0BC1 207
D_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|து 0BA4 0BC1 208	Template:Chset-color-intl \|நு 0BA8 0BC1 209	Template:Chset-color-intl \|பு 0BAA 0BC1 210	Template:Chset-color-intl \|மு 0BAE 0BC1 211	Template:Chset-color-intl \|யு 0BAF 0BC1 212	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ரு 0BB0 0BC1 213	Template:Chset-color-intl \|லு 0BB2 0BC1 214	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வு 0BB5 0BC1 215	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழு 0BB4 0BC1 216	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ளு 0BB3 0BC1 217	Template:Chset-color-intl \|று 0BB1 0BC1 218	Template:Chset-color-intl \|னு 0BA9 0BC1 219	Template:Chset-color-intl \|கூ 0B95 0BC2 220	Template:Chset-color-intl \|சூ 0B9A 0BC2 221	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டூ 0B9F 0BC2 222	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ணூ 0BA3 0BC2 223
E_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|தூ 0BA4 0BC2 224	Template:Chset-color-intl \|நூ 0BA8 0BC2 225	Template:Chset-color-intl \|பூ 0BAA 0BC2 226	Template:Chset-color-intl \|மூ 0BAE 0BC2 227	Template:Chset-color-intl \|யூ 0BAF 0BC2 228	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ரூ 0BB0 0BC2 229	Template:Chset-color-intl \|லூ 0BB2 0BC2 230	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வூ 0BB5 0BC2 231	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழூ 0BB4 0BC2 232	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ளூ 0BB3 0BC2 233	Template:Chset-color-intl \|றூ 0BB1 0BC2 234	Template:Chset-color-intl \|னூ 0BA9 0BC2 235	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க் 0B95 0BCD 236	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ங் 0B99 0BCD 237	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ச் 0B9A 0BCD 238	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞ் 0B9E 0BCD 239
F_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ட் 0B9F 0BCD 240	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ண் 0BA3 0BCD 241	Template:Chset-color-intl \|த் 0BA4 0BCD 242	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ந் 0BA8 0BCD 243	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ப் 0BAA 0BCD 244	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ம் 0BAE 0BCD 245	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ய் 0BAF 0BCD 246	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ர் 0BB0 0BCD 247	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ல் 0BB2 0BCD 248	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வ் 0BB5 0BCD 249	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழ் 0BB4 0BCD 250	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ள் 0BB3 0BCD 251	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ற் 0BB1 0BCD 252	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ன் 0BA9 0BCD 253	Template:Chset-color-intl \|இ 0B87 254	Template:Chset-color-undef\|
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

In the table above 80 is U+0BE6 TAMIL DIGIT ZERO, which has been accepted in Unicode version 4.1. A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. The codes AD and FF are unassigned.

References

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	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
8_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௦ 0BE6 128	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௧ 0BE7 129	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ்ரீ 0BB8 0BCD 0BB0 0BC0 130	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஜ 0B9C 131	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஷ 0BB7 132	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ 0BB8 133	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஹ 0BB9 134	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க்ஷ 0B95 0BCD 0BB7 135	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஜ் 0B9C 0BCD 136	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஷ் 0BB7 0BCD 137	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஸ் 0BB8 0BCD 138	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஹ் 0BB9 0BCD 139	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க்ஷ் 0B95 0BCD 0BB7 0BCD 140	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௨ 0BE8 141	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௩ 0BE9 142	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௪ 0BEA 143
9_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௫ 0BEB 144	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|‘ 2018 145	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|’ 2019 146	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|“ 201C 147	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|” 201D 148	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௬ 0BEC 149	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௭ 0BED 150	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௮ 0BEE 151	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௯ 0BEF 152	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஙு 0B99 0BC1 153	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞு 0B9E 0BC1 154	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஙூ 0B99 0BC2 155	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞூ 0B9E 0BC2 156	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௰ 0BF0 157	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௱ 0BF1 158	Template:Chset-color-intl \|௲ 0BF2 159
A_	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|NBSP 00A0 160	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ா 0BBE 161	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ி 0BBF 162	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ீ 0BC0 163	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ு 0BC1 164	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ூ 0BC2 165	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ெ 0BC6 166	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ே 0BC7 167	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ை 0BC8 168	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct\|© 00A9 169	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ௗ 0BD7 170	Template:Chset-color-intl \|அ 0B85 171	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஆ 0B86 172	Template:Chset-color-undef\|	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஈ 0B88 174	Template:Chset-color-intl \|உ 0B89 175
B_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஊ 0B8A 176	Template:Chset-color-intl \|எ 0B8E 177	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஏ 0B8F 178	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஐ 0B90 179	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஒ 0B92 180	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஓ 0B93 181	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஔ 0B94 182	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஃ 0B83 183	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க 0B95 184	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ங 0B99 185	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ச 0B9A 186	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞ 0B9E 187	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ட 0B9F 188	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ண 0BA3 189	Template:Chset-color-intl \|த 0BA4 190	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ந 0BA8 191
C_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ப 0BAA 192	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ம 0BAE 193	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ய 0BAF 194	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ர 0BB0 195	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ல 0BB2 196	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வ 0BB5 197	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழ 0BB4 198	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ள 0BB3 199	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ற 0BB1 200	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ன 0BA9 201	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டி 0B9F 0BBF 202	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டீ 0B9F 0BC0 203	Template:Chset-color-intl \|கு 0B95 0BC1 204	Template:Chset-color-intl \|சு 0B9A 0BC1 205	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டு 0B9F 0BC1 206	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ணு 0BA3 0BC1 207
D_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|து 0BA4 0BC1 208	Template:Chset-color-intl \|நு 0BA8 0BC1 209	Template:Chset-color-intl \|பு 0BAA 0BC1 210	Template:Chset-color-intl \|மு 0BAE 0BC1 211	Template:Chset-color-intl \|யு 0BAF 0BC1 212	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ரு 0BB0 0BC1 213	Template:Chset-color-intl \|லு 0BB2 0BC1 214	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வு 0BB5 0BC1 215	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழு 0BB4 0BC1 216	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ளு 0BB3 0BC1 217	Template:Chset-color-intl \|று 0BB1 0BC1 218	Template:Chset-color-intl \|னு 0BA9 0BC1 219	Template:Chset-color-intl \|கூ 0B95 0BC2 220	Template:Chset-color-intl \|சூ 0B9A 0BC2 221	Template:Chset-color-intl \|டூ 0B9F 0BC2 222	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ணூ 0BA3 0BC2 223
E_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|தூ 0BA4 0BC2 224	Template:Chset-color-intl \|நூ 0BA8 0BC2 225	Template:Chset-color-intl \|பூ 0BAA 0BC2 226	Template:Chset-color-intl \|மூ 0BAE 0BC2 227	Template:Chset-color-intl \|யூ 0BAF 0BC2 228	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ரூ 0BB0 0BC2 229	Template:Chset-color-intl \|லூ 0BB2 0BC2 230	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வூ 0BB5 0BC2 231	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழூ 0BB4 0BC2 232	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ளூ 0BB3 0BC2 233	Template:Chset-color-intl \|றூ 0BB1 0BC2 234	Template:Chset-color-intl \|னூ 0BA9 0BC2 235	Template:Chset-color-intl \|க் 0B95 0BCD 236	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ங் 0B99 0BCD 237	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ச் 0B9A 0BCD 238	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ஞ் 0B9E 0BCD 239
F_	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ட் 0B9F 0BCD 240	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ண் 0BA3 0BCD 241	Template:Chset-color-intl \|த் 0BA4 0BCD 242	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ந் 0BA8 0BCD 243	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ப் 0BAA 0BCD 244	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ம் 0BAE 0BCD 245	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ய் 0BAF 0BCD 246	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ர் 0BB0 0BCD 247	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ல் 0BB2 0BCD 248	Template:Chset-color-intl \|வ் 0BB5 0BCD 249	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ழ் 0BB4 0BCD 250	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ள் 0BB3 0BCD 251	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ற் 0BB1 0BCD 252	Template:Chset-color-intl \|ன் 0BA9 0BCD 253	Template:Chset-color-intl \|இ 0B87 254	Template:Chset-color-undef\|
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

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