Alphabetic Presentation Forms

{{Infobox Unicode block

|rangestart = FB00

|rangeend = FB4F

|script1 = {{nowrap|Armenian (5 char.)}}

|script2 = {{nowrap|Hebrew (46 char.)}}

|script3 = {{nowrap|Latin (7 char.)}}

|1_0_1 = 1

|1_1 = 56

|3_0 = 1

|note = Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0,{{cite book |section-url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/ch03_5.pdf |section=3.5: Private Use Area |isbn=0-201-56788-1 |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1 |year=1991 |publisher=Unicode Consortium |pages=118–119}} and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1.{{pb}}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.{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf|title=Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum|work=The Unicode Standard|date=1992-11-03|accessdate=2016-07-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}

}}

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

Block

{{Unicode chart Alphabetic Presentation Forms}}

History

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

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Version{{nobr|Final code points}}CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.1width="180" | U+FB1E1(to be determined)
1.1U+FB00..FB06, FB13..FB17, FB1F..FB36, FB38..FB3C, FB3E, FB40..FB41, FB43..FB44, FB46..FB4F56(to be determined)
rowspan="9" | 3.0rowspan="9" | U+FB1Drowspan="9" | 1{{nobr|X3L2/95-124}}N1364{{Citation|title=Proposal for Inclusion of One Additional Character, HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, in the Unicode/ISO 10646 Standard|date=1995-09-29|first=Mark|last=David}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1995-UTC/UTC66-Minutes.TXT UTC/1995-054]}}{{Citation|title=Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes|date=1995-09-29|section=Additional Yiddish Letter}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1353.doc N1353]{{Citation|title=Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30|date=1996-06-25|first1=V. S.|last1=Umamaheswaran|first2=Mike|last2=Ksar|section=8.13}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98004R.pdf L2/98-004R]}}N1681{{Citation|title=Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot|date=1997-12-22}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/02n3188.pdf L2/98-318]}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1894_02n3188_fpdam%2018.pdf N1894]{{Citation|title=Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others|date=1998-10-22}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01004-fb1d.txt L2/01-004]}}{{Citation|title=The impact of normalization (proposal to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list)|date=2000-12-20|first=Martin|last=Duerst}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01008-fb1d-peter.txt L2/01-008]}}{{Citation|title=Argument to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list|date=2000-12-22|first=Peter|last=Constable}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01038-UFB1D-support.txt L2/01-038]}}{{Citation|title=Add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion List|date=2001-01-18|first=Jonathan|last=Rosenne}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01012.htm L2/01-012R]}}{{Citation|title=Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001|date=2001-05-21|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Normalization - YOD WITH HIRIQ}}
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See also

References