Arabic Extended-A is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...

encoding

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annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0
(Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. )
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Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:

References

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External links

Scheherazade
an extended Arabic script font designed by

SIL International SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to ex ...

, distributed under the

SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL International ...

(OFL)
Harmattan
an extended Arabic script font designed by

for West Africa, distributed under the

(OFL) Unicode blocks