Arabic 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 ...

, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the

Arabic script The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widel ...

, and the Arabic-Indic digits.The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0
, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. )
Chapter 8

Unicode chart Arabic

History

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

References

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