U+206D "" Activate Arabic Form Shaping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+206D "" Activate Arabic Form Shaping is an invisible, or "default ignorable," control character defined in the Unicode Standard. Its intended function is to signal to a text rendering engine that it should apply the rules of Arabic script shaping to the surrounding text, ensuring that Arabic letters take their correct initial, medial, final, or isolated forms depending on their position in a word. This character is part of a set of bidirectional and shaping controls designed for complex text layout, though it is rarely implemented or supported in modern software, and much of its usage has been deprecated or replaced by better-defined mechanisms within the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+206D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Activate Arabic Form Shaping |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |  |
| HTML Hex Encoding |  |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x206D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000206D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u206d |