Writing Arabic-Islamic Symbols in LibreOffice Writer (Unicode)

For the purpose of writing any text with Islamic symbols in Arabic, you can do it in LibreOffice Writer using its Unicode support. If you were familiar with Unicode support in Microsoft Word, then this LibreOffice feature is equal. Here you will find examples in writing Islamic symbols such as shall allahu alaihy wa sallam (shalawat), allah (the name of Allah), rasool (the prophet) bismillah ar rahman ar raheem, and some more.

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Basic Unicode Typing

What you will do by typing these Islamic symbols is typing Unicode characters. In Microsoft Word, you did it the same, you were typing Unicode characters. The only difference is how to type them between Writer and Word. I compare them here by example of shalawat symbol (U+FDFA).

In Microsoft Word: 


ﷺ

ﷺ

Thanks to Unicode Standard, we get the same symbols in any different office software.

Appearance in Writer Document

This is how they should look correctly at Writer.

Table of Islamic Symbols in Unicode

Arabic Symbol	Latin	Unicode Notation
ﷲ	Allah	FDF2
ﷲ ﷳ	Allahu Akbar	FDF2 FDF3
ﷻ	Jalla jalalouhou	FDFB
ﷺ	Shalla Allahu wa alaihy wasallam	FDFA
ﷴ	Mohammed	FDFA
ﷶ	Rasool	FDFA
ﷸ	Wa Sallam	FDFA

 

References

• http://topislamic.com/arabic-symbols-ms-word
• http://meta.islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1058/useful-unicode-characters-for-islam-se
• http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-3.1/U31-FB50.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script_in_Unicode