Arabic Supplement

Arabic Supplement
Range U+0750..U+077F
(48 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Arabic
Major alphabets Khowar
Torwali
Burushaski
African languages
Early Persian
Assigned 48 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 30 (+30)
5.1 48 (+18)
Note: [1][2]

Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic letter variants used for writing non-Arabic languages, including languages of Pakistan and Africa, and old Persian.

Block

Arabic Supplement[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+075x ݐ ݑ ݒ ݓ ݔ ݕ ݖ ݗ ݘ ݙ ݚ ݛ ݜ ݝ ݞ ݟ
U+076x ݠ ݡ ݢ ݣ ݤ ݥ ݦ ݧ ݨ ݩ ݪ ݫ ݬ ݭ ݮ ݯ
U+077x ݰ ݱ ݲ ݳ ݴ ݵ ݶ ݷ ݸ ݹ ݺ ݻ ݼ ݽ ݾ ݿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+0750..076926L2/02-274Kew, Jonathan (2002-07-16), Proposal for extensions to the Arabic block
L2/03-168Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-02), Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages
L2/03-176Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-03), Proposal to encode Jawi and Moroccan Arabic GAF characters
L2/03-210Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-12), Draft chart showing UTC #95 additions to Arabic blocks
L2/03-223N2598Kew, Jonathan (2003-07-10), Proposal to encode additional Arabic-script characters
U+076A1L2/03-228RN2627Kew, Jonathan (2003-09-29), Proposal to encode Marwari LAM WITH BAR Character
L2/03-240R3Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "B.14.6", UTC #96 Minutes
U+076B..076D3L2/04-025RN2723Kew, Jonathan (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters
5.1U+076E..077D16L2/06-150Bashir, Elena (2006-05-05), Letters of support for characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski
L2/06-149Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-09), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski
L2/06-328Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-11), Proposal to change the previously decided name of some Arabic characters
L2/07-264Anderson, Deborah (2007-08-06), Shaping behavior of Burushaski characters and other Arabic additions in L2/06-149
L2/10-158Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Shaping Behavior of U+0777
L2/10-108Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "B.13.3", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
U+077E..077F2L2/06-345RN3180REverson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh; Sarbar, Elnaz (2006-10-24), Proposal to encode eight Arabic characters for Persian and Azerbaijani in the UCS
  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.
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