Tamil | |
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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 (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, 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.