Arabic Extended-A

Arabic Extended-A
Range U+08A0..U+08FF
(96 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Arabic (73 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabets African languages
Bashkir
Belarusian
Berber
Chechen
Crimean Tatar
Lak
Philippine languages
Rohingya
Tatar
Arwi
Assigned 74 code points
Unused 22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 39 (+39)
7.0 47 (+8)
8.0 50 (+3)
9.0 73 (+23)
11.0 74 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.[3]

Block

Arabic Extended-A[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+08Ax
U+08Bx
U+08Cx
U+08Dx
U+08Ex   
U+08Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.1U+08A0, 08A2..08AC, 08E4..08EF, 08F4..08FE35L2/10-288RN3882Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages
U+08F0..08F34L2/01-325Milo, Thomas (2001-08-14), Three kinds of variation in Arabic script (sukun and jazm)
L2/02-275Kew, Jonathan (2002-08-02), Proposal for Koranic alternate marks
L2/10-094N3816Proposal to change some combining Arabic characters for Quranic representation, 2010-03-21
L2/09-419RN3791Pournader, Roozbeh (2010-03-30), Proposal to encode four combining Arabic characters for Koranic use
L2/10-155Schmitt, Arno; Hosny, Khaled (2010-05-03), Reservations on L2/09-419 proposal
L2/10-221Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.11.1", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
L2/10-371N3920Lazrek, Azzeddine (2010-09-30), Comments on Resolutions from Meeting 56 (and the 3rd edition) concerning Koranic characters
7.0U+08A11L2/10-288RN3882Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages
L2/10-442RN3988Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-10-29), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
U+08AD..08B15L2/11-138Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-04-28), Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages
L2/11-190Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in L2/11-138
L2/11-201N4065Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in “Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages”
L2/11-209N4071, N4072Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-05-20), Revised Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages
U+08B21L2/12-181RN4271Priest, Lorna A. (2012-05-09), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE
U+08FF1L2/11-033RN3989Priest, Lorna (2011-02-10), Proposal to add Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna
8.0U+08B3..08B4, 08E33L2/08-429Buhari, Seyed (2008-12-04), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script
L2/09-143Buhari, Seyed (2009-04-15), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script
L2/13-168Ganesan, Naga (2013-07-29), Comment on L2/13-130: Writing classical Tamil in Arabic script
L2/13-130RN4474Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-08-19), Proposal to encode three Arabic characters for Arwi
9.0U+08B6..08BA5L2/13-178Banafunzi, Hamid; Banafunzi, Marghani; Nuur, Maxamed (2013-08-31), Proposal to encode five Arabic script characters for the Bravanese (Chimiini)
L2/13-223RN4498Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-11-06), Proposal to encode four Arabic characters for Bravanese
L2/14-293RPournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2014-11-01), Proposal to Encode Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above for Bravanese
U+08BB..08BD3L2/14-104Evans, Lorna (2014-04-29), Supporting the Warsh orthography for Arabic script
L2/14-207RPournader, Roozbeh (2014-08-09), Implications of the Unicode Arabic model for the Warsh orthography
L2/14-211Evans, Lorna (2014-08-15), Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters
U+08D41L2/14-148Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-06-26), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa used in Quran published in Pakistan
N4592Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-08-11), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rub used in Quran published in Pakistan
U+08D5..08E214L2/14-095Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-04-24), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Pakistan
L2/14-105RN4589Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-07-27), Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks
11.0U+08D31L2/16-044Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-11-29), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya with Commentary
L2/15-329Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-12-02), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya
L2/16-056Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2016-02-16), Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya
L2/16-100Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-04-27), Comments on L2/16-056 Proposal to encode AlDani Quranic Marks
L2/16-102Anderson, Deborah (2016-05-01), "#10", Consolidated Comments by Mansour, Evans, and Abudena on Al-Dani Quranic Marks (L2/16-056)
L2/16-153Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-05-04), Types of Quran scripts
L2/16-156Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "5. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-121Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "5. Arabic", UTC #147 Minutes
L2/16-268Lazrek, Azzeddine (2016-09-26), Suggestions on some Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
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