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  2. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Only the Arabic question mark ؟ and the Arabic comma ، are used in regular Arabic script typing and the comma is often substituted for the Latin script comma , which is also used as the decimal separator when the Eastern Arabic numerals are used (e.g. 100.6 compared to ١٠٠,٦ ).

  3. Arabic typography - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Amiri (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Amiri (Arabic: أميري) is a naskh typeface for Arabic script designed by Khaled Hosny. [1] [2] The beta was released in December 2011. [1] As of October 22, 2019, it is hosted on 67,000 websites, and is served by the Google Fonts API approximately 74.8 million times per week. [3]

  5. Open-source Unicode typefaces - Wikipedia

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    The fonts implement almost the whole of the Multilingual European Subset 1 of Unicode. Also provided are keyboard handlers for Windows and the Mac, making input easy. They are based on fonts designed by URW++ Design and Development Incorporated, and offer lookalikes for Courier, Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and New Century Schoolbook. [4]

  6. Simplified Arabic - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] It became the Arabic supplement for the typefaces Times New Roman and Arial, which were then included as TrueType fonts for the core fonts for the Web World Wide Web. [5] The Simplified Arabic font reduced the number of characters necessary to compose Arabic, allowing it to fit into the Linotype machine's single 90-channel magazine. [1]

  7. Kashida - Wikipedia

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    The terms Kasheeda and Tatweel can also refer to a character that represents this elongation ( ـ) or to one of a set of glyphs of varying lengths that implement this elongation in a font. The Unicode standard assigns code point U+0640 as Arabic Tatweel. The right side of this basmala contains a long kasheeda with a natural string-like curve.

  8. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script can, therefore, be used as a true alphabet as well as an abjad, although it is often strongly, if erroneously, connected to the latter due to it being originally used only for Arabic. Use of the Arabic script in West African languages, especially in the Sahel, developed with the spread of Islam.

  9. List of Arabic letter components - Wikipedia

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    The "Arabic Tatweel Modifier Letter" U+0640 character used to show the positional forms doesn't work in some Nastaliq fonts. ^ii. For most letters the isolated form is shown, for select letters all forms (isolated, start, middle, and end) are shown.