ASCII Character ا
Arabic letter AlefAleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including the Arabic alphabet. Written as ا, spelled as ألف and transliterated as alif, it is the first letter in Arabic and North Arabian. As a numeral, alif stands for the number one. It may be modified as follows to represent other numbers.
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ASCII Code for ا
These are the code points for arabic letter Alef in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-6 | 199 | C7 |
| Windows-1256 | 199 | C7 |
Unicode for ا
The character for arabic letter Alef is mapped in Unicode as U+0627| Unicode | U+0627 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 1575 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0627 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xD8 0xA7 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11011000:10100111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 11011000:10100111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0627 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000627 | |
HTML Entities for ا
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the arabic letter Alef in HTML| HTML Number | ا | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ا |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %D8%A7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =D8=A7 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0627" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0627 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0627" | |
| Perl | \x{0627} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0627" | |
| Python 3 | \u0627 | |
| Ruby | \u{0627} |