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  2. 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.

  3. Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP): U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform. U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation. U+12480–U+1254F Early Dynastic Cuneiform. The sample glyphs in the chart file published by the Unicode Consortium [3] show the characters ...

  4. InPage - Wikipedia

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    InPage. InPage is a word processor and page layout software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian information technology company. It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and macOS. It was first developed in 1994 and is primarily used for creating ...

  5. 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.

  6. Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode Standard encodes almost all standard characters used in mathematics. Unicode Technical Report #25 provides comprehensive information about the character repertoire, their properties, and guidelines for implementation. Mathematical operators and symbols are in multiple Unicode blocks. Some of these blocks are dedicated to, or ...

  7. Bidirectional text - Wikipedia

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    Bidirectional text. A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row. An example is the RTL Hebrew name Sarah: שרה, spelled sin (ש) on the ...

  8. Bilal ibn Rabah - Wikipedia

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    Bilāl ibn Rabāḥبِلَال بِن رَبَاح. 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 ...

  9. Universal Coded Character Set - Wikipedia

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    The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented typing systems are added.