| Rangestart: | FE70 |
| Rangeend: | FEFF |
| Symbols: | contextual and isolate forms of Arabic letters and points |
| 1 0 0: | 140 |
| 3 2: | 1 |
| Note: | [1] [2] The characters in this block were re-ordered in Unicode 1.0.1, in the process of merging with ISO/IEC 10646. |
Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint ZWNBSP (zero width no-break space) is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark (that may precede text, Arabic or not, or be absent). The block name in Unicode 1.0 was Basic Glyphs for Arabic Language;[3] its characters were re-ordered in the process of merging with ISO 10646 in Unicode 1.0.1 and 1.1.[4]
The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.[5]
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block:
| Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+FE70..FE72, FE74, FE76..FE7F | 14 | |||||
| U+FE80..FEFC | 125 | (to be determined) | |||||
| U+FEFF | 1 | ||||||
| 3.2 | U+FE73 | 1 | |||||
| N2322 | |||||||
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