| Tamil | |
|---|---|
| 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.