Arabic Extended-B
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Arabic Extended-B | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0870..U+089F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic |
| Major alphabets | Bosnian Javanese Sorabe Sundanese |
| Unused | 48 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
Template:Unicode chart Arabic Extended-B
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 | ||||
| 16.0 | U+0897 | 1 | L2/22-116 | Sh., Rikza F. (2022-05-22), Proposal to Encode Four Pegon Characters | |
| L2/22-128 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-07-20), Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-121 | Constable, Peter (2022-08-01), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 172 | ||||
| L2/23-157 | Constable, Peter (2023-07-31), UTC #176 Minutes, "The UTC approves the change of canonical combining class for U+0897 ARABIC PEPET to ccc=230, from ccc=0" | ||||
| 17.0 | U+088F | 1 | L2/24-046 | Evans, Lorna Priest (2024-02-16), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE | |
| L2/24-068 | Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-04-18), Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/24-061 | Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), UTC #179 Minutes | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ 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
