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.
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil block:
Version Count UTC ID 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 4.0 U+0BF3..0BFA 8 N2381R N2421 N2403 N4480 4.1 U+0BB6 1 N2618 U+0BE6 1 N2741 5.1 U+0BD0 1 N3119 doc)
See also Tamil script Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)
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