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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]
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 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. ^ii.
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [ b ] of which most have contextual letterforms.
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 subset, and some additional related characters.
The Unicode characters for superscript (modifier) IPA vowel letters, plus a pair of extended letters ᵻ ᵿ found in English dictionaries, are as follows. Recently retired alternative letters such as ɩ ɷ are also supported; they are set off in parentheses and placed below the standard IPA letters:
Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint ZWNBSP ( zero width no-break space ) is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark (that may precede text, Arabic or not, or be absent).