U08E0

U+08E0 is a Unicode code point located in the Arabic Extended-A block, which covers additional Arabic-script characters beyond the standard Arabic range. The exact character assigned to U+08E0 is defined in the Unicode Character Database and code charts, and its use is typically limited to scholarly, historical, or minority-language texts. Because many fonts do not include glyphs for all characters in Arabic Extended-A, U+08E0 may render as a missing glyph or a placeholder in some environments. Users should consult up-to-date Unicode data to determine the current assignment and glyph rendering for this code point.

In practice, characters in the Arabic Extended-A block are used to encode historic variants, ligatures, or letters that appear in non-standard or regional alphabets. U+08E0, like other points in this block, may not be part of everyday modern Arabic typography and is more relevant to specialized typography and linguistic research. Rendering and typographic behavior depend on font support, input methods, and rendering engines; some systems may not display a glyph at all if the font lacks coverage for this code point.

Technical aspects include its encoding in UTF-8 as a three-byte sequence (for example, 0xE0 0xA3 0xA0) and its representation in UTF-16 as 0x08E0. For authoritative details on its naming, status, and glyph, see the Unicode Standard’s code charts and the UnicodeData files.

See also: Unicode, Arabic script, Arabic Extended-A, UTF-8 encoding.