Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the

Arabic script The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it or a script directly derived from it, and the ...

, and the Arabic-Indic digits.The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0
(Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. )
Chapter 8
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Block

History

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

References

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