Basic_Glyphs_for_Arabic_Language

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Unicode character block

See also: Arabic Presentation Forms-A (Unicode block), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Unicode block), and Specials (Unicode block)
For a list of all Arabic characters encoded in Unicode, see Arabic script in Unicode.

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint ZWNBSP (zero width no-break space) is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark (that may precede text, Arabic or not, or be absent).[note 1] The block name in Unicode 1.0 was Basic Glyphs for Arabic Language;[5] its characters were re-ordered in the process of merging with ISO 10646 in Unicode 1.0.1 and 1.1.[3]

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The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.[6]

Block

Arabic Presentation Forms-B[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+FE7x ﹰ ﹱ ﹲ ﹳ ﹴ ﹶ ﹷ ﹸ ﹹ ﹺ ﹻ ﹼ ﹽ ﹾ ﹿ
U+FE8x ﺀ ﺁ ﺂ ﺃ ﺄ ﺅ ﺆ ﺇ ﺈ ﺉ ﺊ ﺋ ﺌ ﺍ ﺎ ﺏ
U+FE9x ﺐ ﺑ ﺒ ﺓ ﺔ ﺕ ﺖ ﺗ ﺘ ﺙ ﺚ ﺛ ﺜ ﺝ ﺞ ﺟ
U+FEAx ﺠ ﺡ ﺢ ﺣ ﺤ ﺥ ﺦ ﺧ ﺨ ﺩ ﺪ ﺫ ﺬ ﺭ ﺮ ﺯ
U+FEBx ﺰ ﺱ ﺲ ﺳ ﺴ ﺵ ﺶ ﺷ ﺸ ﺹ ﺺ ﺻ ﺼ ﺽ ﺾ ﺿ
U+FECx ﻀ ﻁ ﻂ ﻃ ﻄ ﻅ ﻆ ﻇ ﻈ ﻉ ﻊ ﻋ ﻌ ﻍ ﻎ ﻏ
U+FEDx ﻐ ﻑ ﻒ ﻓ ﻔ ﻕ ﻖ ﻗ ﻘ ﻙ ﻚ ﻛ ﻜ ﻝ ﻞ ﻟ
U+FEEx ﻠ ﻡ ﻢ ﻣ ﻤ ﻥ ﻦ ﻧ ﻨ ﻩ ﻪ ﻫ ﻬ ﻭ ﻮ ﻯ
U+FEFx ﻰ ﻱ ﻲ ﻳ ﻴ ﻵ ﻶ ﻷ ﻸ ﻹ ﻺ ﻻ ﻼ ZW
NBSP
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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 Arabic Presentation Forms-B block:

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References

  1. [1]
    "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. [2]
    "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. [3]
    "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  4. [4]
    "Layout Controls" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0.0. The Unicode Consortium. p. 871.
  5. [5]
    "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  6. [6]
    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

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    As the name suggests, it was also used to prohibit line breaks at its position, but this usage was deprecated in Unicode 3.2.[4]
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