Tamil (Unicode block)
{{also|Tamil Supplement|l1=Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)}}
{{Infobox Unicode block
|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 = {{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}
}}
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
{{Unicode chart Tamil}}
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil block:
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| Version | {{nobr|Final code points}} | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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| rowspan="11" | 1.0.0 | rowspan="11" width="180" | 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 | rowspan="11" | 61 | {{nobr|UTC/1991-056}} | {{Citation|title=Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam|first=Ken|last=Whistler|ref=none}} | ||
| {{nobr|UTC/1991-057}} | {{Citation|title=Indic names list|first=Ken|last=Whistler|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1991-UTC/UTC46-draft.txt UTC/1991-048B]}} | {{Citation|title=Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple|date=1991-03-27|first=Ken|last=Whistler|ref=none|section=III. L. Walk In proposals}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01303-india-letter.pdf L2/01-303]}} | {{Citation|title=Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"|date=2001-07-26|first=Om|last=Vikas|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01304-feedback.pdf L2/01-304]}} | {{Citation|title=Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0|date=2001-08-02|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01305-india-resp.txt L2/01-305]}} | {{Citation|title=Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"|date=2001-08-08|first=Rick|last=McGowan|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-088-200108.html L2/01-295R]}} | {{Citation|title=Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88|date=2001-11-06|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Motion 88-M9|quote=The UTC approves changing the general category type of U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mn to Lo.}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01430R.pdf L2/01-430R]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"|date=2001-11-20|first=Rick|last=McGowan|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05185-kssa-zwj.pdf L2/05-185]}} | {{Citation|title=Documentation for KSSA as Non-conjunct Consonant and Conjunct Consonant in Tamil|date=2005-07-25|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05180.htm L2/05-180]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #104 Minutes|date=2005-08-17|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Tamil (C.12.1), KSSA in Tamil (C.12)}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10108.htm L2/10-108]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes|date=2010-05-19|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=B.10.15 [U+0B83, U+0BC1, U+0BC2]}} | |||||
| rowspan="15" | 4.0 | rowspan="15" | U+0BF3..0BFA | rowspan="15" | 8 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01375r-N2381R-Tamil.pdf L2/01-375R]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2381r.pdf N2381R] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to add eight Tamil symbols|date=2001-10-11|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none}} | |
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01420-consent-docket.txt L2/01-420]}} | {{Citation|title=WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC|date=2001-10-30|first=Ken|last=Whistler|ref=none|section=d. Tamil sign additions}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01405-mi.htm L2/01-405R]}} | {{Citation|title=Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001|date=2001-12-12|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 89-C23}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02112-n2421-tamil.pdf L2/02-112]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2421.pdf N2421] | {{Citation|title=Feedback on Tamil Symbols in PDAM2-10646-1 from the INFITT WG on Unicode|date=2002-03-15|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02154-n2403-minutes.pdf L2/02-154]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2403.pdf N2403] | {{Citation|title=Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19|date=2002-04-22|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=7.11}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12106-ed-updates.pdf L2/12-106]}} | {{Citation|title=Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts|date=2012-03-17|first=Shriramana|last=Sharma|ref=none|section=2. Tamil}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12147-script-rept.pdf L2/12-147]}} | {{Citation|title=Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC|date=2012-04-25|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Rick|last2=McGowan|first3=Ken|last3=Whistler|ref=none|section=II. TAMIL}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12150-tamil-credit.pdf L2/12-150]}} | {{Citation|title=Tamil credit sign (U+0BF7) glyph shape from Printed Books|date=2012-05-01|first=Naga|last=Ganesan|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12180-infitt-report.pdf L2/12-180]}} | {{Citation|title=Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations|date=2012-05-05|first=Mani|last=Manivannan|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12384-tamil-frac.html L2/12-384]}} | {{Citation|title=Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign|date=2012-06-11|first=Naga|last=Ganesan|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13028-script-rept.pdf L2/13-028]}} | {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals|date=2013-01-28|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Rick|last2=McGowan|first3=Ken|last3=Whistler|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|ref=none|section=19.2}} | |||||
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4480.pdf N4480] | {{Citation|title=Request to change two glyphs of existing Tamil symbols|date=2013-09-06|first=Shriramana|last=Sharma|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17424-script-ext-changes.pdf L2/17-424]}} | {{Citation|title=Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0|date=2017-12-08|first1=Srinidhi|last1=A|first2=Sridatta|last2=A|ref=none}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18039-script-adhoc-rec.pdf L2/18-039]}} | {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals|date=2018-01-19|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Roozbeh|last3=Pournader|first4=Lisa|last4=Moore|first5=Hai|last5=Liang|first6=Richard|last6=Cook|ref=none|section=ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18007.htm L2/18-007]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #154 Minutes|date=2018-03-19|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Action item 154-A120|quote=Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039.}} | |||||
| rowspan="4" | 4.1 | rowspan="3" | U+0BB6 | rowspan="3" | 1 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03273-sha-proposal.pdf L2/03-273]}} | {{Citation|title=Proposal to add Tamil grantha character SHA|date=2003-07-29|ref=none}} | ||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03278-tamil-sha.pdf L2/03-278]}} | {{Citation|title=Review of a Proposal placed before UTC bearing No. L2/03-273, Proposal to encode Tamil SHA|date=2003-07-29|first=Peri|last=Bhaskararao|ref=none}} | |||||
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2618.pdf N2618] | {{Citation|title=Review of a Proposal placed before Unicode Technical Committee entitled 'Proposal to add Tamil Letter SHA' (L2/03-273)|date=2003-09-14|first=Peri|last=Bhaskararao|ref=none}} | |||||
| U+0BE6 | 1 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04073-td0.pdf L2/04-073]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2741.pdf N2741] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to add Tamil Digit Zero|date=2004-02-01|first=Michael|last=Kaplan|ref=none}} | ||
| rowspan="3" | 5.1 | rowspan="3" | U+0BD0 | rowspan="3" | 1 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06184-tamil-om.pdf L2/06-184]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3119.pdf N3119] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to add Tamil Om|date=2006-04-28|ref=none}} | |
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06108.htm L2/06-108]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #107 Minutes|date=2006-05-25|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=C.23}} | |||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3153.pdf N3153 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3153.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29|date=2007-02-16|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=M49.5c}} | |||||
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