{"id":261,"date":"2015-09-17T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:13:47","slug":"charset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/charset\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Set Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Awami Nastaliq font does not provide complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode for Arabic script. Because the font style is specifically intended for languages using the Nastaliq style of Arabic script, the character set for this font is aimed at supporting those languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U0600.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic (U+0600..U+06FF)<\/a> was added to Unicode 1.0. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U0750.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic Supplement (U+0750..U+077F)<\/a> was added to Unicode 4.1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U08A0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic Extended-A (U+08A0..U+08FF)<\/a> was added to Unicode 6.1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U0870.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic Extended-B (U+0870..U+089F)<\/a> was added to Unicode 14.0, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U10EC0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic Extended-C (U+10EC0..U+10EFF)<\/a> was added to Unicode 15.0. There are still some Arabic script characters being added to Unicode, so it is possible that not all languages using the Arabic script are fully represented in Unicode.<\/p>\n<h2>Supported characters<\/h2>\n<p>The following character ranges are supported by this font:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Unicode block<\/th>\n<th>Awami Nastaliq support<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 except for 0605..0608, 0616..061C, 061D..061E, 063B..0640, 065C..065D, 0676..0678, 067F..0680, 068C..068D, 068F, 0692, 069C..069D, 069F, 06A2..06A3, 06A6..06A7, 06AA, 06AC, 06AE, 06B2, 06B4, 06B6, 06B8, 06BF, 06D1, 06D6..06DB, 06DE..06DF, 06E2..06E9, 06EB..06EC, 06EE..06EF, 06FA, 06FC..06FF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Supplement<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 except for 0750..0753, 0755..0758, 075B, 075D..0761, 0764..0767<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Extended-A<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 only includes 08C7, 08C8, 08F7, 08FF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Extended-B<\/td>\n<td>\u2717<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Extended-C<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 only includes 10ED0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Presentation Forms-A<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 only includes FD3E..FD3F, FD40..FD45, FD47..FD49, FD4D, FD4F, FD90..FD91, FDCF, FDF2, FDFA..FDFF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arabic Presentation Forms-B<\/td>\n<td>\u2713 only includes FBC6..FBC7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Codepage 1252 (Western)\u00b9<\/td>\n<td>\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A selection of characters from the General Punctuation block, such as various-sized spaces, are also supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9Inclusion of basic Latin repertoire is provided as a convenience, e.g., for use in menus or for displaying markup in text files; these fonts are not intended for extensive Latin script use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Awami Nastaliq font does not provide complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode for Arabic script. Because the font style is specifically intended for languages using the Nastaliq style of Arabic script, the character set for this font is aimed at supporting those languages. Arabic (U+0600..U+06FF) was added to Unicode 1.0. Arabic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}