Plane BMP | Assigned 611 code points | |
Range U+FB50..U+FDFF
(688 code points) Scripts Arabic (609 char.)
Common (2 char.) Major alphabets Central Asian languages
Pashto
Persian
Sindhi
Urdu Symbol sets contextual forms
multi-letter and
word ligatures | ||
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. The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.
References
Arabic Presentation Forms-A Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA