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Glyph for U+0BC8
Source: Noto Sans Tamil

U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai

U+0BC8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0B80 to U+0BFF Tamil in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Tamil script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0BC8 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Spacing Mark.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi], ) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya are also written in the Tamil script.

Representations

System Representation
3016
UTF-8 E0 AF 88
UTF-16 0B C8
UTF-32 00 00 0B C8
URL-Quoted %E0%AF%88
HTML hex reference ை
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ை

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name TAMIL VOWEL SIGN AI
Unicode 1 Name
Block Tamil
General Category Spacing Mark
Script Tamil
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Case Folding Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category Left
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel_Dependent
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Extend
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Extend
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0BC8 Tamil Vowel Sign Ai
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R