Tamil Supplement

See also: Tamil (Unicode block)

Tamil Supplement is a Unicode block containing Tamil historic fractions and symbols.^[3]

Tamil Supplement
Range	U+11FC0..U+11FFF (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Tamil
Assigned	51 code points
Unused	13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.0 (2019)	51 (+51)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Tamil Supplement[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+11FCx

𑿀

𑿁

𑿂

𑿃

𑿄

𑿅

𑿆

𑿇

𑿈

𑿉

𑿊

𑿋

𑿌

𑿍

𑿎

𑿏

U+11FDx

𑿐

𑿑

𑿒

𑿓

𑿔

𑿕

𑿖

𑿗

𑿘

𑿙

𑿚

𑿛

𑿜

𑿝

𑿞

𑿟

U+11FEx

𑿠

𑿡

𑿢

𑿣

𑿤

𑿥

𑿦

𑿧

𑿨

𑿩

𑿪

𑿫

𑿬

𑿭

𑿮

𑿯

U+11FFx

𑿰

𑿱

𑿿

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil Supplement block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
12.0	U+11FC0..11FF1, 11FFF	51	L2/09-317		Sharma, Shriramana (2009-09-22), Request to allocate a Tamil Supplementary block in the Unicode SMP Roadmap
			L2/09-376		Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-25), Request for encoding Tamil Major Fractions
			L2/09-398		Ganesan, Naga (2009-10-30), Tamil fractions - Comment on L2/09-376
			L2/09-416		Dias, Gihan (2009-11-02), Comment on L2/09-376 Tamil Fractions
			L2/10-408		Ganesan, Naga (2010-10-19), Encoding of Tamil Fractions in Unicode
			L2/10-428		Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-22), Revised Tamil fractions proposal (supplement to L2/10-334R)
			L2/10-440		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "2. Tamil Fractions", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/10-334		Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-09), Request to encode Tamil fractions
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "D.5.1", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
			L2/12-384		Ganesan, Naga (2012-06-11), Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign
			L2/12-231		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-17), Proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols
			L2/12-232		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-17), Regarding my Tamil fractions/symbols proposal
			L2/12-267		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "II. TAMIL", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-243		Ganesan, Naga (2012-07-23), Comment on L2/12-231: Tamil symbols and fractions
			L2/13-007		Nakkeeran, P. R. (2013-01-21), Upcoming discussion in Unicode about Tamil fractions
			L2/13-028		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "17", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-047	N4430	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-03-05), Revised proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols
			L2/13-077		Ganesan, Naga (2013-04-26), Comment on L2/13-047: Revised Proposal to encode Tamil fractions and Symbols
			L2/13-086		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "14", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-058		Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "D.3", UTC #135 Minutes
				N4462	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-06-12), Attestations for Tamil fractions and Symbols
			L2/13-161		Request to Use Tamil names in Tamil fractions and symbols, 2013-07-24
			L2/13-174	N4476	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-08-09), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Tamil
			L2/13-175	N4477	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-08-09), Response to L2/13-161 on naming Tamil fractions and symbols
			L2/13-176	N4478	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-08-24), Request to change one character name from N4430 L2/13-047
			L2/13-193		Ganesan, Naga (2013-10-25), Comment on Tamil Nadu Government Request L2/13-161, Use of Tamil Names for Tamil Fractions and Symbols
			L2/13-210		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "6, 7, 8", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
			L2/13-217		Sharma, Shriramana (2013-11-03), Naming the Tamil fractions and symbols based on the Tamil Lexicon
			L2/13-216		Ganesan, Naga (2013-11-04), Feedback from Tamil Experts on Tamil Character Names and Annotations of Symbols and Fractions
			L2/14-018	N4526	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-12-20), Spelling changes for Tamil fractions and symbols
			L2/14-053		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "14", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
			L2/14-037	N4528	Manivannan, Mani; et al. (2014-01-28), Spelling changes for Tamil fractions and symbols
			L2/14-038		Nakkeeran, P. R. (2014-01-28), Feedback on Tamil symbols naming scheme
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.7 Tamil supplement block", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
			L2/14-048		Comments on the Proposals to Encode Tamil Symbols and Fractions, 2014-01-31
			L2/14-160		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-18), Reply to L2/14-048 on Tamil fractions
			L2/14-170		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
			L2/14-210		Letter on Tamil Fraction Naming, 2014-08-06
			L2/14-212		Renganathan, Vasu (2014-09-03), Tamil names and annotations
			L2/14-217	N4623	Sharma, Shriramana (2014-09-10), Response to the ICTA's doc L2/14-048 on Tamil fractions and symbols
				N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.06b, M62.06g", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
			L2/14-268R		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel (2014-10-27), "3. Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #141 October 2014 on Script Proposals
			L2/14-216	N4622	Sharma, Shriramana (2014-11-10), Current status of Tamil symbols naming issue
			L2/14-250		Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C13", UTC #141 Minutes, Approve the move of six Tamil archaic characters from U+0BDF, U+0BFB..U+0BFF in the Tamil block to U+11FF0..U+11FF5 in the Tamil Supplement block.
			L2/15-003		Ganesan, Naga (2015-01-19), Naming Tamil Symbols in SMP - Vallinam Characters
			L2/15-045		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew (2015-01-30), "1. Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-060		Minutes of the 2nd meeting of the TVA High Level Committee on Unicode related issues held on 23rd January 2015, 2015-02-02
			L2/15-078		Suignard, Michel (2015-02-04), Proposed Tamil Charts (for Unicode 8.0)
			L2/15-079		Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah; Sharma, Alolita; Chew, Patrick (2015-02-05), Proposed name changes to Tamil Supplement block characters
			L2/15-017		Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "D.2.3", UTC #142 Minutes
			L2/15-115		Ganesan, Naga (2015-04-23), Tamil Symbols Names and Annotations – Comments
			L2/15-149		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "5. Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-176		Jain, Manoj (2015-07-20), Encoding of Tamil fractions and special symbols in Tamil block and a new Tamil Supplement block
			L2/15-185		Ramachandran, Thiru T. K. (2015-07-21), Recommendations on Tamil Fractions and special symbols in Unicode - Postponement of decision
			L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "6.Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.2.1", UTC #144 Minutes
			L2/16-052	N4603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03d, 9.1.6, 9.1.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
			L2/16-007		Letter No. 1766/e. Gov.I/2015-15 dated 19.1.2016, 2016-01-19
			L2/16-039		Tamil Fraction and symbols encoding proposal, extended feedbacks, 2016-01-25
			L2/16-054		Letter No. 1766/e.Gov.I/2015-18 dated 27.1.2016, 2016-01-27
			L2/16-004		Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.8.1 Tamil symbols and fractions", UTC #146 Minutes
			L2/16-061		Letter No.1766/e.Gov.I/2015-21 dated 25.02.2016, 2016-02-25
			L2/16-062		Tamil Fraction and symbols encoding proposal -- Extended feedbacks, 2016-02-25
			L2/16-083		Ganesan, Naga (2016-04-20), Tamil Symbols: Comment on L2/16-062
L2/16-114		Sharma, Shriramana (2016-05-02), Feedback on the GoTN's document L2/16-062 on Tamil fractions and symbols
L2/16-155 (pdf, xlsx)		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2016-05-06), Script Ad Hoc Recommendations on Tamil Fractions and Symbols
L2/16-121		Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.8.1.4", UTC #147 Minutes
L2/17-069	N4822	Finalized proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols (with cover letter), 2017-03-15
L2/17-114		Ganesan, Naga (2017-04-27), Comment on L2/17-069: Tamil Fractions and Symbols
L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "7. Tamil", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.8 Tamil", UTC #151 Minutes
L2/18-336		Lodewijck, Marc (2018-12-02), Comment on spelling of 11FD8 character name
L2/19-047		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "14", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals
L2/19-008		Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "B.11.10.1.2 Comment on spelling of 11FD8 character name", UTC #158 Minutes, Consensus: Change the name of U+11FD8 from TAMIL SIGN UZHAAKKU to TAMIL SIGN UZHAKKU.
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. "L2/17-069: Finalized proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols (with cover letter)" (PDF). 2017-03-15.