Alphabetic Presentation Forms

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

Alphabetic Presentation Forms
RangeU+FB00..U+FB4F
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArmenian (5 char.)
Hebrew (46 char.)
Latin (7 char.)
Assigned58 code points
Unused22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.1 (1992)1 (+1)
1.1 (1993)57 (+56)
3.0 (1999)58 (+1)
Unicode documentation
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]

Block

Alphabetic Presentation Forms[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+FB0x
U+FB1x  
U+FB2x
U+FB3x
U+FB4x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.1U+FB1E1(to be determined)
1.1U+FB00..FB06, FB13..FB17, FB1F..FB36, FB38..FB3C, FB3E, FB40..FB41, FB43..FB44, FB46..FB4F56(to be determined)
3.0U+FB1D1X3L2/95-124N1364David, 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
N1353Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.13", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
L2/98-004RN1681Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
L2/98-318N1894Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
L2/01-004Duerst, Martin (2000-12-20), The impact of normalization (proposal to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list)
L2/01-008Constable, Peter (2000-12-22), Argument to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list
L2/01-038Rosenne, Jonathan (2001-01-18), Add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion List
L2/01-012RMoore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Normalization - YOD WITH HIRIQ", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "3.5: Private Use Area" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1. Unicode Consortium. 1991. pp. 118–119. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
  2. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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