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The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType. [2] As of Unicode 16.0, the Arabic script is contained in the following blocks: [3] Arabic (0600–06FF, 256 characters) Arabic Supplement (0750–077F, 48 characters)
Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits. [ 3 ] Unicode chart Arabic
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status 1 1 no description Unknown optional Background: How is this table composed Note that a script is not a language. A single script, like the Latin alphabet, is used in many languages. Unicode is only about scripts, not about languages that use that script. Still there may be nuances, like the English ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
If ever new Arabic letters have been encoded in the Unicode/ISO 10646 standards and that are not “dual joining”, the source code of this template should be updated as needed (this table was generated using normative references from the Unicode character database (UCD) – see the Notes and references section below).
The implicit directional marks are non-printing characters used in the computerized typesetting of bi-directional text containing mixed left-to-right scripts (such as Latin and Cyrillic) and right-to-left scripts (such as Persian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew). Unicode defines three such characters, the left-to-right mark, the right-to-left mark ...
The characters used to illustrate the consonant diacritics are from Unicode set "Arabic pedagogical symbols". [2] The "Arabic Tatweel Modifier Letter" U+0640 character used to show the positional forms doesn't work in some Nastaliq fonts.
Windows-1256 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu.. This code page is neither compatible with ISO/IEC 8859-6 nor the MacArabic encoding.