Arabic Supplement
Unicode character block
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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.
RangeU+0750..U+077F
(48 code points)
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic
Major alphabetsKhowar
Torwali
Burushaski
Shahmukhi
Arwi
Jawi script
Ajami script
Early Persian
Torwali
Burushaski
Shahmukhi
Arwi
Jawi script
Ajami script
Early Persian
| Arabic Supplement | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0750..U+077F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic |
| Major alphabets | Khowar Torwali Burushaski Shahmukhi Arwi Jawi script Ajami script Early Persian |
| Assigned | 48 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 30 (+30) |
| 5.1 (2008) | 48 (+18) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
| Arabic Supplement[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 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
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Supplement block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/02-274 | Kew, Jonathan (2002-07-16), Proposal for extensions to the Arabic block | |
| L2/03-168 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-02), Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages | ||||
| L2/03-176 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-03), Proposal to encode Jawi and Moroccan Arabic GAF characters | ||||
| L2/03-210 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-12), Draft chart showing UTC #95 additions to Arabic blocks | ||||
| L2/03-223 | N2598 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-07-10), Proposal to encode additional Arabic-script characters | |||
| U+076A | 1 | L2/03-228R2 | N2627 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-09-29), Proposal to encode Marwari LAM WITH BAR Character | |
| L2/03-240R3 | Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Marwari Lam with Bar (B.14.6)", UTC #96 Minutes | ||||
| U+076B..076D | 3 | L2/04-025R | N2723 | Kew, Jonathan (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters | |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | N3117 | Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-07-27), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski | |
| L2/06-150 | Bashir, Elena (2006-05-05), Letters of support for characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski | ||||
| L2/06-149 | Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-09), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski | ||||
| L2/06-108 | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.18", UTC #107 Minutes | ||||
| N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29 | ||||
| L2/06-328 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-11), Proposal to change the previously decided name of some Arabic characters | ||||
| L2/06-324R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C27", UTC #109 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.4e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27, Names of characters in the range 0773 to 077D are changed by replacing the word 'EASTERN' with 'EXTENDED' in them. | |||
| L2/07-264 | Anderson, Deborah (2007-08-06), Shaping behavior of Burushaski characters and other Arabic additions in L2/06-149 | ||||
| L2/07-225 | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Burushaski Shaping Behavior", UTC #112 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-158 | Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Shaping Behavior of U+0777 | ||||
| L2/10-108 | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Action item 123-A50", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Suggest clarifying text in section 8.2 of TUS 5.2 pp 248-249 regarding Yeh and Farsi Yeh joining groups. | ||||
| U+077E..077F | 2 | L2/06-345R | N3180R | Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh; Sarbar, Elnaz (2006-10-24), Proposal to encode eight Arabic characters for Persian and Azerbaijani in the UCS | |
| L2/06-324R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "C.12", UTC #109 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
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