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The template documentation for Template:Arabic alphabet shapes follows. This template generates a table showing the shaping of an Arabic character. It avoids using any Arabic Unicode compatibility characters for forcing their variant forms, because these characters are incomplete for full coverage of the Arabic script, and because their usage ...
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Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics.
The Standard Arabic Technical Transliteration System, commonly referred to by its acronym SATTS, is a system for writing and transmitting Arabic language text using the one-for-one substitution of ASCII-range characters for the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Unlike more common systems for transliterating Arabic, SATTS does not provide the ...
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Arabic phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Modern Standard Arabic, and varieties of Arabic for regional variation.
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Arabic language | state = collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Arabic language | state = expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.
The first was that each Arabic letter (sound) can only correspond to one English-language character. Some Arabic letters produce a sound that corresponds to 2 English letters when written. Therefore, a single letter or common symbol would have to be used for them. The second concept was to use the familiar if possible.
Only Arabic characters (mostly letters) are currently handled by this template (hence its current name), because the table attempts to join the characters using the standard Arabic tatweel character before and/or after the referenced character.