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 (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: [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) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | 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 | (to be determined) | ||
| 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" | ||||
| L2/01-430R | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0” | ||||
| 4.0 | U+0BF3..0BFA | 8 | L2/01-375R | N2381R | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-10-11), Proposal to add eight Tamil symbols |
| L2/02-112 | N2421 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-03-15), Feedback on Tamil Symbols in PDAM2-10646-1 from the INFITT WG on Unicode | |||
| L2/12-150 | Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Tamil credit sign (U+0BF7) glyph shape from Printed Books | ||||
| L2/12-384 | Ganesan, N. (2012-06-11), Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign | ||||
| N4488 | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-06), Request to change two glyphs of existing Tamil symbols | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| L2/03-278R | 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 | Proposal to add Tamil Om, 2006-04-28 | |
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See also
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.