U+206C "" Inhibit Arabic Form Shaping Unicode Character

U+206C "" Inhibit Arabic Form Shaping is an invisible formatting control character used in digital text processing to prevent the automatic cursive connection and shape changes that typically occur between adjacent Arabic letters during rendering. When inserted between two Arabic characters, it forces both letters to remain in their isolated or initial forms rather than joining into a ligature or medial form, which can be useful for displaying linguistic examples, preserving character shapes in data, or correcting unwanted typographic connections in multilingual contexts. This character is part of the Unicode Bidirectional and Formatting Controls block and is designed for specialized applications where precise control over Arabic script shaping is needed without altering the underlying text content.