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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)
Constable, Peter (2016-10-28), Script property of Arabic Letter Mark and interaction with digit substitution mechanisms: L2/17-016: Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C24", UTC #150 Minutes, Change the Script property of U+061C from Common to Arabic, and change Script_Extensions from Default to Arabic, Syriac, and Thaana, for Unicode 10.0 ...
The Arabic script, also called as the Perso-Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic ... Arabic (Unicode block) Eastern Arabic numerals ...
The only ligature within the primary range of Arabic script in Unicode (U+06xx) is lām + alif. This is the only one compulsory for fonts and word-processing. Other ranges are for compatibility to older standards and contain other ligatures, which are optional. Note: Unicode also has in its Presentation Form B FExx range a code for this ligature.
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.
The encoding of the Arabic script in Unicode is based on ISO/IEC 8859-6 [1] rather than PASCII Codepage layout. The following table shows the character set for PASCII.
Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic letter variants used for writing non ... (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters:
Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and ... Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African ...