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The Arabic Extended-B and Arabic Extended-A ranges encode additional Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-A range encodes contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages.
A font is a particular set of glyphs (character shapes), differentiated from other fonts in the same family by additional properties such as stroke weight, slant, relative width, etc. The CSS term font face is matched with "font"; it is decided by a combination of the font family and the additional properties. In both HTML and CSS, the list is ...
Allawi, Adil (2010-01-27), Proposal for changes to ArabicShaping.txt to allow machine generation of Arabic fonts and glyphs: L2/10-168: Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Problems with the joining behavior of Arabic Letter Yeh Barree (U+06D2) L2/10-108
Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a Unicode block encoding contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages. This block also allocates 32 noncharacters in Unicode, designed specifically for internal use.
Generates a table showing the shaping of an Arabic character. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Character 1 no description Example ج String required The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Arabic alphabet shapes/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ...
In HTML and XML, a numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#xhhhh;. or &#nnnn; where the x must be lowercase in XML documents, hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form, and nnnn is the code point in decimal form.
Windows-1256 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu.. This code page is neither compatible with ISO-8859-6 nor the MacArabic encoding.
The font family is released as GNU FreeFont under the GNU General Public License. It also supports several font formats, including PostScript, TrueType, and OpenType. For this reason the fonts are derived from original work made in FontForge, and stored in .sfd (Spline Font Database) files. The most recent release is from May 2012.