NAME

iso_8859-6 - ISO/IEC 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV). ISO/IEC 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language.

ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO/IEC 8859-1	West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO/IEC 8859-2	Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO/IEC 8859-3	Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO/IEC 8859-4	Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO/IEC 8859-5	Latin/Cyrillic
ISO/IEC 8859-6	Latin/Arabic
ISO/IEC 8859-7	Latin/Greek
ISO/IEC 8859-8	Latin/Hebrew
ISO/IEC 8859-9	Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO/IEC 8859-10	Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO/IEC 8859-11	Latin/Thai
ISO/IEC 8859-13	Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO/IEC 8859-14	Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO/IEC 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO/IEC 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO/IEC 8859-6 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-6 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
240	160	A0		NO-BREAK SPACE
244	164	A4	¤	CURRENCY SIGN
254	172	AC	،	ARABIC COMMA
255	173	AD	­	SOFT HYPHEN
273	187	BB	؛	ARABIC SEMICOLON
277	191	BF	؟	ARABIC QUESTION MARK
301	193	C1	ء	ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302	194	C2	آ	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303	195	C3	أ	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304	196	C4	ؤ	ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305	197	C5	إ	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306	198	C6	ئ	ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307	199	C7	ا	ARABIC LETTER ALEF
310	200	C8	ب	ARABIC LETTER BEH
311	201	C9	ة	ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312	202	CA	ت	ARABIC LETTER TEH
313	203	CB	ث	ARABIC LETTER THEH
314	204	CC	ج	ARABIC LETTER JEEM
315	205	CD	ح	ARABIC LETTER HAH
316	206	CE	خ	ARABIC LETTER KHAH
317	207	CF	د	ARABIC LETTER DAL
320	208	D0	ذ	ARABIC LETTER THAL
321	209	D1	ر	ARABIC LETTER REH
322	210	D2	ز	ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323	211	D3	س	ARABIC LETTER SEEN
324	212	D4	ش	ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325	213	D5	ص	ARABIC LETTER SAD
326	214	D6	ض	ARABIC LETTER DAD
327	215	D7	ط	ARABIC LETTER TAH
330	216	D8	ظ	ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331	217	D9	ع	ARABIC LETTER AIN
332	218	DA	غ	ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340	224	E0	ـ	ARABIC TATWEEL
341	225	E1	ف	ARABIC LETTER FEH
342	226	E2	ق	ARABIC LETTER QAF
343	227	E3	ك	ARABIC LETTER KAF
344	228	E4	ل	ARABIC LETTER LAM
345	229	E5	م	ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346	230	E6	ن	ARABIC LETTER NOON
347	231	E7	ه	ARABIC LETTER HEH
350	232	E8	و	ARABIC LETTER WAW
351	233	E9	ى	ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352	234	EA	ي	ARABIC LETTER YEH
353	235	EB	ً	ARABIC FATHATAN
354	236	EC	ٌ	ARABIC DAMMATAN
355	237	ED	ٍ	ARABIC KASRATAN
356	238	EE	َ	ARABIC FATHA
357	239	EF	ُ	ARABIC DAMMA
360	240	F0	ِ	ARABIC KASRA
361	241	F1	ّ	ARABIC SHADDA
362	242	F2	ْ	ARABIC SUKUN

NOTES

ISO/IEC 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).

SEE ALSO

ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)