Arabic is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...

, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, 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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