Plane BMP Assigned 72 code points | ||
Range U+0B80..U+0BFF(128 code points) Major alphabets TamilBadagaSaurashtra Unused 56 reserved code points | ||
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.
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Tamil (Unicode block) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA