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Nastaliq is a calligraphic hand used for Persian, Urdu, Kashmiri and other languages written in Perso-Arabic script. Learn about its origin, development, characteristics and variations from this comprehensive article.
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others. The block has 128 code points, and the character ढ़ is the 105th one in the block, representing the Devanagari letter "ra".
Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et , Latin for and ) were combined. [ 1 ]
Learn about the different methods of transliterating Devanagari, an Indic script used for many languages of North India and Nepal, into Roman script. Compare IAST, Hunterian, ISO 15919, ASCII and other schemes with examples and features.
Learn about the Unicode block that encodes halfwidth and fullwidth characters for various scripts and symbols. See the code chart, the block name history, and the Unicode documentation link.
Latin Extended-D contains characters that are mostly of interest to medievalists, such as ligatures and letters with diacritics. It is one of the 19 blocks of the Latin script in Unicode, along with Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, etc.
Learn about the Unicode encoding of the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script, which covers three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane. See the character inventory, ordering, and list of signs with Sumerian transliteration and Borger's numbering.
A code page is a specific association of characters and control characters with unique numbers, typically in a single byte. Learn about the origin, usage, and variations of code pages, especially IBM's EBCDIC-based code pages and Unicode.