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  2. Braille Patterns - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode names of braille dot patterns are not the same as what many English speakers would use colloquially. In particular, Unicode names use the word dots in the plural even when only one dot is listed: thus Unicode says braille pattern dots-5 when most English-speaking users of braille would simply say "braille dot 5" or just "dot 5".

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Balinese (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Balinese (Unicode block) This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Balinese is a Unicode block containing characters of Balinese script for the Balinese language. Balinese language is mainly spoken on the island of Bali, Indonesia .

  6. Common Indic Number Forms - Wikipedia

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    Common Indic Number Forms is a Unicode block containing characters for representing fractions in north India, Pakistan, and Nepal. Common Indic Number Forms [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

  7. Phoenician (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down.

  8. 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.

  9. Sutton SignWriting (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    This article contains symbols from the SignWriting Script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of SignWriting symbols. Sutton SignWriting is a Unicode block containing characters used in SignWriting, a system for writing sign languages that was developed by Valerie Sutton in 1974.