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Arabic Presentation Forms B

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Plane
  
BMP

Unused
  
3 reserved code points

Assigned
  
141 code points

Range
  
U+FE70..U+FEFF (144 code points)

Scripts
  
Arabic (140 char.) Common (1 char.)

Symbol sets
  
contextual and isolate forms of Arabic letters and points

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.

References

Arabic Presentation Forms-B Wikipedia