| Blockname: | Tamil |
| Rangestart: | 0B80 |
| Rangeend: | 0BFF |
| Script1: | Tamil |
| Alphabets: | Tamil Saurashtra |
| 1 0 0: | 61 |
| 4 0: | 8 |
| 4 1: | 2 |
| 5 1: | 1 |
| Sources: | ISCII |
| 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.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil block:
| 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 | ||||
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