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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.

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