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

Block

Alphabetic Presentation Forms[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+FB0x
U+FB1x
U+FB2x
U+FB3x
U+FB4x
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 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:

VersionFinal code pointsCountUTC 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
"Additional Yiddish Letter", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes, 1995-09-29
Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.13", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
N1681Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
Duerst, Martin (2000-12-20), The impact of normalization (proposal to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list)
Constable, Peter (2000-12-22), Argument to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list
Rosenne, Jonathan (2001-01-18), Add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion List
Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Normalization - YOD WITH HIRIQ", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001

See also