Arabic star

Arabic star

:"For stars with Arabic names, see List of Arabic star names."The Arabic star is a punctuation mark developed to be distinct from the asterisk (*). The asterisk had existed in feudal times, and the original shape of the asterisk was six-pointed, each point like a teardrop coming from the center. However, some typewriters had difficulty printing the six arms distinctly. Furthermore, due to Arab-Israeli tension, many Arabs would not buy typewriters with a six-armed symbol, which they identified with the Star of David on the Israeli flag. [http://www.laits.utexas.edu/rfpit/persianword/asterisk.html Persian Asterisk] from PersianComputing forum] Hence many systems use a distinct symbol referred to as the "Arabic star".

The Arabic star is given a distinct character in Unicode, U+066D, in the space reserved for the Arabic alphabet. The official name is "Arabic five-pointed star." [ [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/066d/index.htm Unicode Arabic five-pointed star] ]

In many modern fonts, however, the asterisk is five-pointed, and the Arabic star is sometimes six- or eight-pointed. The two symbols are compared below (the display depends on your browser's font).

ee also

*Star (glyph)

References

External links

* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_Programming/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF Windows Programming/Unicode/Character reference/0000-0FFF]


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