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  2. Bilal ibn Rabah - Wikipedia

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    Islam. Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ ( Arabic: بِلَال بِن رَبَاح) (5 March 580 – 2 March 640), was one of the Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and is considered to have been the first mu'azzin in history, chosen by Muhammad himself. [1] [4] [5] [6] He was a former Abyssinian slave and was known ...

  3. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq ( Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق ), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

  4. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.

  5. Latin script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Blocks. As of version 15.1 of the Unicode Standard, 1,481 characters in the following 19 blocks are classified as belonging to the Latin script. [2] Basic Latin, 0000–007F. This block corresponds to ASCII. Latin-1 Supplement, 0080–00FF. This block and the ASCII part collectively corresponds to IANA Latin-1. Latin Extended-A, 0100–017F.

  6. ITRANS - Wikipedia

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    The "Indian languages TRANSliteration" (ITRANS) is an ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts, particularly for the Devanagari script.The need for a simple encoding scheme that used only keys available on an ordinary keyboard was felt in the early days of the rec.music.indian.misc (RMIM) Usenet newsgroup where lyrics and trivia about Indian popular movie songs were being discussed.

  7. UTF-EBCDIC - Wikipedia

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    UTF-EBCDIC. UTF-EBCDIC is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points in Unicode using 1 to 5 bytes (in contrast to a maximum of 4 for UTF-8 ). [1] It is meant to be EBCDIC -friendly, so that legacy EBCDIC applications on mainframes may process the characters without much difficulty.

  8. Bengali (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column.

  9. Ol Chiki (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Unicode version history. 5.1 (2008) 48 (+48) Unicode documentation. Code chart ∣ Web page. Note: [1] [2] Ol Chiki is a Unicode block containing characters of the Ol Chiki, or Ol Cemet' script used for writing the Santali language during the early 20th century. Ol Chiki [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)