Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint, ZWNBSP is also here, which is used as a byte order mark. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Basic Glyphs for Arabic Language; its characters were re-ordered in the process of merging with ISO 10646 in Unicode 1.0.1 and 1.1. The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint, ZWNBSP is also here, which is used as a byte order mark. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Basic Glyphs for Arabic Language; its characters were re-ordered in the process of merging with ISO 10646 in Unicode 1.0.1 and 1.1. The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.