Alphabetic Presentation Forms

Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Range U+FB00..U+FB4F
(80 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Armenian (5 char.)
Hebrew (46 char.)
Latin (7 char.)
Assigned 58 code points
Unused 22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.1 1 (+1)
1.1 57 (+56)
3.0 58 (+1)
Note: One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Alphabetic Presentation Forms is a Unicode block containing standard ligatures for the Latin, Armenian, and Hebrew scripts.

Block

Alphabetic Presentation Forms[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FB0x
U+FB1x  
U+FB2x
U+FB3x
U+FB4x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.1 U+FB1E 1 (to be determined)
1.1 U+FB00..FB06, FB13..FB17, FB1F..FB36, FB38..FB3C, FB3E, FB40..FB41, FB43..FB44, FB46..FB4F 56 (to be determined)
3.0 U+FB1D 1 X3L2/95-124 N1364 David, Mark (1995-09-29), Proposal for Inclusion of One Additional Character, HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, in the Unicode/ISO 10646 Standard 
L2/97-122 N1557 Name for the character coded FB1D, 1997-05-11 
L2/01-004 Duerst, Martin (2000-12-20), The impact of normalization (proposal to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list) 
L2/01-008 Constable, Peter (2000-12-22), Argument to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list 
L2/01-038 Rosenne, Jonathan (2001-01-18), Add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion List 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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