Arabic Extended-A is a

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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. )
Chapter 8
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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, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
Harmattan
an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International for West Africa, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) Unicode blocks