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Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et , Latin for and ) were combined. [ 1 ]
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
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. 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 ...
Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic letter variants used for writing non-Arabic languages, including languages of Pakistan and Africa, and old Persian. Block [ edit ]
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).
2. ^ Unicode code point U+0673 is deprecated as of Unicode version 6.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Arabic }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Arabic block.
The following table shows the extended version of Windows-1256. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its decimal code. Here every Arabic letter is shown in isolated form. The actual forms of the letters inside Arabic words are rendered by a combination of software rules and appropriate font support.
The ISCII encoding was originally intended to cover both the Brahmi-derived writing systems of India and the Arabic-based systems, but it was subsequently decided to encode the Arabic-based writing systems separately. PASCII has now been rendered largely obsolete by Unicode.