Arabic letter mark

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The Arabic letter mark (ALM) is a

Similar to the right-to-left mark (RLM), it is used to change the way adjacent characters are grouped with respect to text direction, with some difference on how it affects the bidirectional level resolutions for nearby characters.

Unicode

In Unicode, the ALM character is encoded at U+061C ؜ ARABIC LETTER MARK. In UTF-8 it is 0xD8 0x9C. Usage is prescribed in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

See also

• Right-to-left mark
• Left-to-right mark
• Bi-directional text

External links

• Proposal to encode the Arabic Letter Mark (ALM)
• Unicode standard annex #9: The bidirectional algorithm
• Unicode character (U+061C)