Alphabetic Presentation Forms Explained

Rangestart:	FB00
Rangeend:	FB4F
1 0 1:	1
1 1:	56
3 0:	1
Note:	Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0,^[1] and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1.One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

Alphabetic Presentation Forms is a Unicode block containing standard ligatures for the Latin, Armenian, and Hebrew scripts.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block:

		Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.1	U+FB1E	1				(to be determined)
1.1	U+FB00..FB06, FB13..FB17, FB1F..FB36, FB38..FB3C, FB3E, FB40..FB41, FB43..FB44, FB46..FB4F	56				(to be determined)
3.0	U+FB1D	1			N1364
					N1353
					N1681
					N1894

See also

• Armenian (Unicode block)
• Latin alphabet in Unicode
• Hebrew alphabet in Unicode
• Precomposed character
• Arabic Presentation Forms-A
• Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Notes and References

1. Book: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/ch03_5.pdf . 3.5: Private Use Area . 0-201-56788-1 . The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1 . 1991 . . 118–119.
2. Web site: Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum. The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. 2016-07-09.
3. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
4. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.