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# A. Appendix of Tamil Font Encodings

There are several non-standard font encoding schemes for Tamil. Then there are a whole lot of fonts (used mostly by publishing houses in Tamil Nadu, such as Vikatan, Kumutham, thinamaNi, etc.) which do not comply with any of these. The three major font encoding schemes are;

TSCII (Tamil Standard Code of Information Interchange - currently running in beta version 1.7); the first efforts by volunteers throughout world.

TAB (TAmil Bilingual); proposed and approved by the Tamil Nadu government

    TSCII 1.6 Encoding Table

    vowels: a, aa/A, i, ii/I, u, uu/U, e, ee/E, ai, o, oo/O, au, aq

    consonants: k, ng, c, ny, t, N, th, n^, p, m, y, r, l, v, zh, L, R, n

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    Position |  character name        | TSCII glyph
    ---------|------------------------|----------------------
    Characters 0-127 are as in the  standard lower ASCII set
    ---------|------------------------|----------------------
    128  80  | c128                   |  tamil numeral 0
    129  81  | c129                   |  tamil numeral 1
    130  82  | baseline single quote  |  tamil numeral 2
    131  83  | florin                 |  tamil numeral 3
    132  84  | baseline double quote  |  tamil numeral 4
    133  85  | ellipsis               |  tamil numeral 5
    134  86  | dagger (single)        |  tamil numeral 6
    135  87  | dagger (double)        |  tamil numeral 7
    136  88  | circumflex             |  tamil numeral 8
    137  89  | per mil (thousand)     |  tamil numeral 9
    138  8A  | S caron                |  modifier for aa/A
    139  8B  | left single guillemet  |  modifier for I
    140  8C  | OE ligature            |  modifier for Ii/I
    141  8D  | c141                   |  modifier for u
    142  8E  | c142                   |  modifier for uu/U
    143  8F  | c143                   |  modifier for e
    144  90  | c144                   |  modifier for ee/E
    145  91  | open single quote      |  (left single guillemet)
    146  92  | close single quote     |  (right single guillemet )
    147  93  | open double quote      |  (left double guillemet)
    148  94  | close double quote     |  (right double guillemet )
    149  95  | bullet (large)         |  tamil numeral 10
    150  96  | en dash                |  tamil numeral 100
    151  97  | em dash                |  tamil numeral 1000
    152  98  | tilde                  |  modifier for ai
    153  99  | unregistered trademark |  tamil vowel a
    154  9A  | s caron                |  tamil vowel aa/A
    155  9B  | right single guillemet |  tamil vowel i
    156  9C  |  oe ligature           |  tamil vowel ii/Ai
    157  9D  |  c157                  |  tamil vowel u
    158  9E  |  c158                  |  tamil vowel uu/U
    159  9F  |  Y diaeresis           |  tamil vowel e
    160  A0  |  non-breaking space    |  (vacant)
    161  A1  |  Spanish inverted !    |  tamil vowel ee/E
    162  A2  |  cents                 |  tamil vowel ai
    163  A3  |  pounds                |  tamil vowel o
    164  A4  |  intl. monetary symbol |  tamil vowel oo/O
    165  A5  |  yen                   |  tamil vowel au
    166  A6  |  broken bar            |  tamil vowel aq
    167  A7  |  section symbol        |  tamil uyirmei ka
    168  A8  |  diaeresis             |  tamil uyirmei nga
    169  A9  |  copyright             |    copyright
    170  AA  |  feminine ordinal      |  tamil uyirmei ca
    171  AB  |  left double guillemet |  tamil uyirmei nya
    172  AC  |  logicalnot            |  tamil uyirmei ta
    173  AD  |  soft hyphen (minus)   |  tamil uyirmei Na
    174  AE  |  registered trademark  |  registered trademark
    175  AF  |  macron                |  tamil uyirmei tha
    176  B0  |  ring (also degrees)   |  tamil uyirmei n^a
    177  B1  |  plus/minus            |  tamil uyirmei pa
    178  B2  |  superscript 2         |  tamil uyirmei ma
    179  B3  |  superscript 3         |  tamil uyirmei ya
    180  B4  |  acute                 |  tamil uyirmei ra
    181  B5  |  micro symbol (or mu)  |  tamil uyirmei la
    182  B6  |  pilcrow (paragraph)   |  tamil uyirmei va
    183  B7  |  bullet (small)        |  bullet (small)
    184  B8  |  cedilla               |  tamil uyirmei zha
    185  B9  |  superscript 1         |  tamil uyirmei La
    186  BA  |  masculine ordinal     |  tamil uyirmei Ra
    187  BB  | right double guillemet |  tamil uyirmei na
    188  BC  |  one-fourth            |  grantha letter ja
    189  BD  |  one-half              |  grantha letter sha
    190  BE  |  three-fourths         |  grantha letter sa
    191  BF  |  Spanish inverted ?    |  grantha letter ha
    192  C0  |  A grave               |  grantha letter ksha
    193  C1  |  A acute|              |  grantha letter sri
    194  C2  |  A circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei ti/di
    195  C3  |  A tilde               |  tamil uyirmei tii/dii
    196  C4  |  A diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei ku
    197  C5  |  A ring                |  tamil uyirmei ngu
    198  C6  |  AE ligature           |  tamil uyirmei cu
    199  C7  |  C cedilla             |  tamil uyirmei nyu
    200  C8  |  E grave               |  tamil uyirmei tu
    201  C9  |  E acute               |  tamil uyirmei Nu
    202  CA  |  E circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei thu
    203  CB  |  E diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei n^u
    204  CC  |  I grave               |  tamil uyirmei pu
    205  CD  |  I acute               |  tamil uyirmei mu
    206  CE  |  I circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei yu
    207  CF  |  I diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei ru
    208  D0  |  Icelandic Eth         |  tamil uyirmei lu
    209  D1  |  N tilde               |  tamil uyirmei vu
    210  D2  |  O grave               |  tamil uyirmei zhu
    211  D3  |  O acute               |  tamil uyirmei Lu
    212  D4  |  O circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei Ru
    213  D5  |  O tilde               |  tamil uyirmei nu
    214  D6  |  O diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei kU
    215  D7  |  multiply symbol       |  tamil uyirmei ngU
    216  D8  |  O with oblique stroke |  tamil uyirmei cU
    217  D9  |  U grave               |  tamil uyirmei nyU
    218  DA  |  U acute               |  tamil uyirmei tU
    219  DB  |  U circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei NU
    220  DC  |  U diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei thU
    221  DD  |  Y acute               |  tamil uyirmei n^U
    222  DE  |  Icelandic Thorn       |  tamil uyirmei pU
    223  DF  |  German sharp s        |  tamil uyirmei mU
    224  E0  |  a grave               |  tamil uyirmei yU
    225  E1  |  a acute               |  tamil uyirmei rU
    226  E2  |  a circumflex          |  tamil uyirmei lU
    227  E3  |  a tilde               |  tamil uyirmei vU
    228  E4  |  a diaeresis           |  tamil uyirmei zhU
    229  E5  |  a ring                |  tamil uyirmei LU
    230  E6  |  ae ligature           |  tamil uyirmei RU
    231  E7  |  c cedilla             |  tamil uyirmei nU
    232  E8  |  e grave               |  tamil vowel  k (ik)
    233  E9  |  e acute               |  tamil vowel  ng (ing)
    234  EA  |  e circumflex          |  tamil vowel  c (ikc)
    235  EB  |  e diaeresis           |  tamil vowel  ny (iny)
    236  EC  |  i grave               |  tamil vowel  t (it)
    237  ED  |  i acute               |  tamil vowel  N (iN)
    238  EE  |  i circumflex          |  tamil vowel  th (ith)
    239  EF  |  i diaeresis           |  tamil vowel  n (in^)
    240  F0  |  Icelandic eth         |  tamil vowel  p (ip)
    241  F1  |  n tilde               |  tamil vowel  m (im)
    242  F2  |  o grave               |  tamil vowel  y (i<)
    243  F3  |  o acute               |  tamil vowel  r (ir)
    244  F4  |  o circumflex          |  tamil vowel  l (il)
    245  F5  |  o tilde               |  tamil vowel  v (iv)
    246  F6  |  o diaeresis           |  tamil vowel  zh (izh)
    247  F7  |  divide symbol         |  tamil vowel  L (iL)
    248  F8  |  o with oblique stroke |  tamil vowel  R (iR)
    249  F9  |  u grave               |  tamil vowel  n (in)
    250  FA  |  u acute               |  grantha vowel  j (ij)
    251  FB  |  u circumflex          |  grantha vowel  sh (ish)
    252  FC  |  u diaeresis           |  grantha vowel  s (is)
    253  FD  |  y acute               |  grantha vowel  h (ih)
    254  FE  |  Icelandic thorn       |  grantha vowel  ksh (iksh)
    255  FF  |  y diaeresis           |  (vacant)
    ---------|------------------------|------------------------

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