Arabic script in Unicode

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". Unicode has other methods of encoding the difference if necessary, such as Zero-width joiner. ==Punctuation and ornaments==

Only the Arabic question mark ⟨⟩ and the Arabic comma ⟨⟩ are used in regular Arabic script typing and the comma is often substituted for the Latin script comma ⟨,⟩ which is also used as the decimal separator when the Eastern Arabic numerals are used (e.g. ⟨100.6⟩ compared to ⟨⟩). • • • • • • • • ٭ • • • • • • ==Word ligatures==

Arabic Presentation Forms-A has a few characters defined as "word ligatures" for terms frequently used in formulaic expressions in Arabic. They are rarely used out of professional liturgical typing, also the Rial grapheme is normally written fully, not by the ligature. • • • • , as in the phrase '''' • • • • • • • • • • ==Code blocks==

Arabic Character table Compact table Arabic Supplement Arabic Extended-B Arabic Extended-A Arabic Presentation Forms A They are mostly ligatures which can be created from the previous charts' characters, with the exception of the bracket-like graphemes and some of them are ligatures of common liturgical phrases. Arabic Presentation Forms B These can all be created from the basic chart's characters. Rumi Numeral Symbols Arabic Extended-C Indic Siyaq Numbers Ottoman Siyaq Numbers Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols ==References==