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The Arabic comma (U+060C, ARABIC COMMA) was added to Unicode in version 1.1, in 1993.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“U+060C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.”

U+060C ARABIC COMMA, codepoints.net (Unicode character data), n.d., Version information.

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What it measures
Version 1.1 is the early Unicode release that first encoded the Arabic punctuation marks.
What it does not show
The version is the first to encode the character; later Unicode versions did not change its name.

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