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Alphabetic Presentation Forms

U+FB00 – U+FB4F   (64256–64335)

These characters are intended to be used with Basic Latin, Armenian and Hebrew. Characters 64257 and 64258 are present in Microsoft’s WGL4 character set and provide Unicode equivalents for two of the characters in Apple’s MacRoman character set. The latest versions of Microsoft’s core fonts (Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman) for Windows include some of the Hebrew characters in this range.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aboriginal Sans, Aboriginal Serif, Aharoni, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Andron Scriptor Web, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Cardo, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, Courier New, David, David Transparent, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, EversonMono, Ezra SIL, Ezra SIL SR, Fixed Miriam Transparent, Fixedsys Excelsior, FrankRuehl, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Gisha, LeedsUni, Legendum, Levenim MT, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Marin, MD King KhammuRabi, Microsoft Sans Serif, Mike Hebrew, Mike Hebrew Web, Miriam, Miriam Fixed, Miriam Transparent, Monospace, MPH 2B Damase, Narkisim, Palatino Linotype, Quivira, Reader Sans, Rod, Rod Transparent, Roman Unicode, SBL Hebrew, sixpack, Tahoma, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Vusillus Old Face and Zawgyi-One; and the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fontsHB Arial (Arial Hebrew), HB Corsiva (Corsiva Hebrew), HB New Peninim (New Peninim MT) and HB Raanana (Raanan); and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Arial, Corsiva Hebrew, Lucida Grande, New Peninim MT, Raanana and Times New Roman.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
64256FB00LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF
64257FB01LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI (present in WGL4 and MacRoman)
64258FB02LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL (present in WGL4 and MacRoman)
64259FB03LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI
64260FB04LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL
64261FB05LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T
64262FB06LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST
64275FB13ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE MEN NOW
64276FB14ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE MEN ECH
64277FB15ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE MEN INI
64278FB16ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE VEW NOW
64279FB17ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE MEN XEH
64285FB1DHEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ
סﬞ64286סﬞFB1EHEBREW POINT JUDEO-SPANISH VARIKA (combined with samekh (ס))
64287FB1FHEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH YOD YOD PATAH
64288FB20HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE AYIN
64289FB21HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF
64290FB22HEBREW LETTER WIDE DALET
64291FB23HEBREW LETTER WIDE HE
64292FB24HEBREW LETTER WIDE KAF
64293FB25HEBREW LETTER WIDE LAMED
64294FB26HEBREW LETTER WIDE FINAL MEM
64295FB27HEBREW LETTER WIDE RESH
64296FB28HEBREW LETTER WIDE TAV
64297FB29HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE PLUS SIGN
64298FB2AHEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH SHIN DOT
64299FB2BHEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH SIN DOT
64300FB2CHEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH AND SHIN DOT
64301FB2DHEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH AND SIN DOT
64302FB2EHEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH
64303FB2FHEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS
64304FB30HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH MAPIQ
64305FB31HEBREW LETTER BET WITH DAGESH
64306FB32HEBREW LETTER GIMEL WITH DAGESH
64307FB33HEBREW LETTER DALET WITH DAGESH
64308FB34HEBREW LETTER HE WITH MAPIQ
64309FB35HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH
64310FB36HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN WITH DAGESH
64312FB38HEBREW LETTER TET WITH DAGESH
64313FB39HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH DAGESH
64314FB3AHEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF WITH DAGESH
64315FB3BHEBREW LETTER KAF WITH DAGESH
64316FB3CHEBREW LETTER LAMED WITH DAGESH
64318FB3EHEBREW LETTER MEM WITH DAGESH
64320FB40HEBREW LETTER NUN WITH DAGESH
64321FB41HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH WITH DAGESH
64323FB43HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE WITH DAGESH
64324FB44HEBREW LETTER PE WITH DAGESH
64326FB46HEBREW LETTER TSADI WITH DAGESH
64327FB47HEBREW LETTER QOF WITH DAGESH
64328FB48HEBREW LETTER RESH WITH DAGESH
64329FB49HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH
64330FB4AHEBREW LETTER TAV WITH DAGESH
64331FB4BHEBREW LETTER VAV WITH HOLAM
64332FB4CHEBREW LETTER BET WITH RAFE
64333FB4DHEBREW LETTER KAF WITH RAFE
64334FB4EHEBREW LETTER PE WITH RAFE
64335FB4FHEBREW LIGATURE ALEF LAMED

Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991-1999 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData-Latest.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 1999.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 16th December 2009

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