Arabic Extended-B

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Short description: Unicode character block
Arabic Extended-B
RangeU+0870..U+089F
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic
Major alphabetsBosnian
Javanese
Malagasy
Sundanese
Unused48 reserved code points
Note: [1][2]

Arabic Extended-B is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The block also includes currency symbols and an abbreviation mark.[3]

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
14.0 U+0870..0888, 089D..089F 28 L2/19-306 N5142 Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2019-09-29), Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies 
L2/19-343 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-323 Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes 
L2/20-105 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals 
U+0889..088A 2 L2/19-339 Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters 
L2/19-343 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-323 Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes 
U+088B..088D 3 L2/19-340 Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Javanese and Sundanese Arabic characters 
L2/19-323 Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes 
U+088E 1 L2/20-071R Pournader, Roozbeh; Izadpanah, Borna (2020-05-01), Proposal to encode an Arabic tail character used for abbreviation 
L2/20-105 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-102 Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), UTC #163 Minutes 
U+0890..0891 2 L2/20-245 Hosny, Khaled; Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-09-09), Proposal to encode three Arabic symbols 
L2/20-250 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes 
U+0898..089C 5 L2/20-089 Syarifuddin, M. Mahali (2020-02-28), Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran 
L2/20-105 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-102 Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), UTC #163 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN:978-1-936213-29-0), Chapter 9