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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) Arabic Extended-B (0870–089F, 42 characters) Arabic Extended-A (08A0–08FF, 96 characters) Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF, 631 characters)
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
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).
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 ]
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 ( MES-2 ) subset, and some additional related characters.
For example, here are the different “a” characters nested under the standard letter on the iPhone keyboard: It’s not just variants on standard letters you can find hidden in your keyboard.
The Arabic alphabet can be encoded using several character sets, including ISO-8859-6, Windows-1256 and Unicode, the latter of which contains the "Arabic segment", entries U+0600 to U+06FF. However, none of the sets indicates the form that each character should take in context.
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.