Arabic (Language) Details

    Table ID:
    ar
    Table Type:
    Language
    Version:
    1.2
    Date Introduced:
    2019-11-26

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    Policy Statement:
    IDN Reference table for Arabic language

References for contextual rules

 RFC 5891: Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol (proposed standard), http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5891

 RFC 5893: Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)  (proposed standard), http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5893

Code points requiring contextual rules

 Code point                        Description of rule/Reference

 U+002D.   HYPHEN-MINUS
Label must neither start nor end with U+002D. Label must not have U+002D in both third and fourth position. RFC 5891 (sec 4.2.3.1)

 U+0660..0669.   ARABIC-INDIC DIGITS
Must not be in initial position. Must not be combined with EUROPEAN DIGITS. RFC 5893 (sec 2, rules 1 and 4)

 U+0030..0039.   EUROPEAN DIGITS                         
Must not be in initial position. Must not be combined with ARABIC-INDIC DIGITS. RFC 5893 (sec 2, rules 1 and 4)

U+0649 ALEF MAKSURA must not be in initial or medial position


A max of 40 allocatable labels are allowed.

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