U+FDD2 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FDD2 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a glyph specifically included within the Unicode standard’s Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of characters designed to represent contextual and positional variants of Arabic letters and ligatures that are not typically encoded as separate characters in the standard Arabic script block. This particular codepoint, along with many others in the same range, is intended primarily for backward compatibility with older text processing systems and fonts that required precomposed forms for ligatures and letter combinations. In modern Unicode practice, the use of U+FDD2 is discouraged in favor of more correct encoding using standard Arabic characters and the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, as Presentation Forms-A characters like these can interfere with proper text processing, search, and rendering. The character itself does not have a widely recognized standalone meaning or usage outside of specialized legacy applications.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
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| HTML Hex Encoding |
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| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xB7 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFDD2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FDD2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufdd2 |
Unicode Properties