Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Unicode character block
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 1.0.1 (1992) 1 (+1) 1.1 (1993) 57 (+56) 3.0 (1999) 58 (+1)
Code chart ∣ Web page Note : Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0,[1] and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1.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 .[2] [3] [4]
Alphabetic Presentation Forms is a Unicode block containing standard ligatures for the Latin, Armenian, and Hebrew scripts.
Block
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[a]
Count
UTC ID
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
UTC/1995-054
"Additional Yiddish Letter", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes , 1995-09-29
N1353
Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.13", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
L2/98-004R
N1681
Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot , 1997-12-22
L2/98-318
N1894
Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others , 1998-10-22
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
L2/01-012R
Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Normalization - YOD WITH HIRIQ", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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