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Arabic Presentation Forms-B
RangeU+FE70..U+FEFF
(144 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic (140 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Symbol setscontextual and isolate forms of Arabic letters and points
Assigned141 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)140 (+140)
3.2 (2002)141 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.[3]

Arabic Presentation Forms-B[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FE7x ﹿ
U+FE8x
U+FE9x
U+FEAx
U+FEBx ﺿ
U+FECx
U+FEDx
U+FEEx
U+FEFx ZW
NBSP
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. ^ The Unicode Standard Version 1.0, Volume 1. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 1990–1991. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
  3. ^ 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