Arabic_Presentation_Forms-A

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

Unicode character block


Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a Unicode block encoding contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages. This block also allocates 32 noncharacters in Unicode, designed specifically for internal use.

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The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards such as codepage 864 used in DOS, and are typically used in visual and not logical order.[5] It has been agreed no further presentation forms will be encoded; though the block still sees further encodings including a contiguous range of 32 noncharacters. [6]

Block

Arabic Presentation Forms-A[1][2][3]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+FB5x
U+FB6x
U+FB7x ﭿ
U+FB8x
U+FB9x
U+FBAx
U+FBBx ﮿
U+FBCx
U+FBDx
U+FBEx
U+FBFx ﯿ
U+FC0x
U+FC1x
U+FC2x
U+FC3x ﰿ
U+FC4x
U+FC5x
U+FC6x
U+FC7x ﱿ
U+FC8x
U+FC9x
U+FCAx
U+FCBx ﲿ
U+FCCx
U+FCDx
U+FCEx
U+FCFx ﳿ
U+FD0x
U+FD1x
U+FD2x
U+FD3x ﴿
U+FD4x
U+FD5x
U+FD6x
U+FD7x ﵿ
U+FD8x
U+FD9x
U+FDAx
U+FDBx ﶿ
U+FDCx
U+FDDx
U+FDEx
U+FDFx ﷿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
3.^ Black areas indicate noncharacters (code points that are guaranteed never to be assigned as encoded characters in the Unicode Standard)

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block:

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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. "3.5: Private Use Area" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1. Unicode Consortium. 1991. pp. 118–119. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
  4. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
  5. "Private-Use Characters, Noncharacters & Sentinels FAQ". www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2023-07-24.

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