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Below is a demonstration for the basic alphabet used in Modern Standard Arabic illustrating how Arabic letters are expected to appear in different contexts. Codepoints listed as contextual forms should "should not be used in general interchange" [4]. Unicode has other methods of encoding the difference if necessary, such as Zero-width joiner.
A comprehensive overview of the Unicode characters, covering 161 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. Learn how to reference Unicode characters using numeric or entity codes, and see the control codes and special characters.
Learn how to use Unicode characters for superscripts and subscripts in plain text without markup. See the difference between numerator/denominator and subscript/superscript glyphs, and the intended and actual rendering of fractions and ordinals.
The numbers in the names of the encodings indicate the number of bits per code unit (for UTF encodings) or the number of bytes per code unit (for UCS encodings and UTF-1). UTF-8 and UTF-16 are the most commonly used encodings. UCS-2 is an obsolete subset of UTF-16; UCS-4 and UTF-32 are functionally equivalent. UTF encodings include:
Learn how Unicode supports several phonetic scripts and notations, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), through its existing scripts and extra blocks. Find the Unicode code point sequences for phonemes as used in the IPA and other systems.
The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down. (See PDF [dead link] summary.) The Unicode block for Phoenician is U+10900–U+1091F.
Learn about the encoding of Latin letters and symbols in the Unicode Standard, which covers 19 blocks of characters with different properties and features. See a table of characters with the script property of Latin and their Unicode versions.
Learn about the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. Find out the history, examples, and common systems of character encoding, such as ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8.