Source: Noto Sans Saurashtra

U+A88E Saurashtra Letter Ai

U+A88E was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block U+A880 to U+A8DF Saurashtra in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Saurashtra 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. In text U+A88E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Saurashtra script is an abugida script that is used by Saurashtrians of Tamil Nadu to write the Saurashtra language. The script is of Brahmic origin, although its exact derivation is not known which was later reformed and standardized by T.M.Ram Rai. Its usage has declined, and the Tamil and Latin scripts are now used more commonly.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	43150
UTF-8	EA A2 8E
UTF-16	A8 8E
UTF-32	00 00 A8 8E
URL-Quoted	%EA%A2%8E
HTML hex reference	ꢎ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ê¢Ž

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name	SAURASHTRA LETTER AI
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Saurashtra
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Saurashtra
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Lowercase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Uppercase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Titlecase Mapping	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Case Folding	Saurashtra Letter 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	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Vowel_Independent
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Saurashtra Letter Ai
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
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	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Saurashtra Letter 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	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Saurashtra Letter Ai
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R