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Unicode block Arabic.jpg Arabic is a Unicode block , containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script , and the Arabic-Indic digits . [ 3 ]
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 ...
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the addition of new glyphs are discussed and evaluated by considering the relevant block or blocks as a ...
Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, Hindi, and other related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.
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 ]
Like other writing systems derived from the Arabic script, Urdu uses the 0600–06FF Unicode range. [23] Certain glyphs in this range appear visually similar (or identical when presented using particular fonts) even though the underlying encoding is different.
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.
The following table shows code page 868. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as code page 437, except for code point 37 (25 hex) which is defined as U+066A ARABIC PERCENT SIGN ٪ instead of U+0025 PERCENT SIGN % .