1ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-6(7)
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6 iso_8859-6 - the ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
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10 The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
11 character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-6 encodes the
12 characters used in the Arabic language.
13 ISO 8859 Alphabets
15 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
16 ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
18 ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
19 ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
20 ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
21 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
22 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
23 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
24 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
25 ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
26 ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
27 ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
28 ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
29 ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
30 ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
31 ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
32 ISO 8859-6 Characters
34 The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6, which are
35 printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column
36 will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO
37 8859-6.
38 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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41 240 160 a0 آ NO-BREAK SPACE
42 244 164 a4 آ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
43 254 172 ac ظ ARABIC COMMA
44 255 173 ad آ SOFT HYPHEN
45 273 187 bb ظ ARABIC SEMICOLON
46 277 191 bf ظ ARABIC QUESTION MARK
47 301 193 c1 ظ ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
48 302 194 c2 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
49 303 195 c3 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
50 304 196 c4 ظ¤ ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
51 305 197 c5 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
52 306 198 c6 ظ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
53 307 199 c7 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF
54 310 200 c8 ظ ARABIC LETTER BEH
55 311 201 c9 ظ ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
56 312 202 ca ظ ARABIC LETTER TEH
57 313 203 cb ظ ARABIC LETTER THEH
58 314 204 cc ظ، ARABIC LETTER JEEM
59 315 205 cd ظ ARABIC LETTER HAH
60 316 206 ce ظ ARABIC LETTER KHAH
61 317 207 cf ظ ARABIC LETTER DAL
62 320 208 d0 ظ ARABIC LETTER THAL
63 321 209 d1 ظ ARABIC LETTER REH
64 322 210 d2 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
65 323 211 d3 ظ ARABIC LETTER SEEN
66 324 212 d4 ظ ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
68 325 213 d5 ظ ARABIC LETTER SAD
69 326 214 d6 ظ ARABIC LETTER DAD
70 327 215 d7 ظ ARABIC LETTER TAH
71 330 216 d8 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAH
72 331 217 d9 ظ ARABIC LETTER AIN
73 332 218 da ظ ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
74 340 223 e0 ع ARABIC TATWEEL
75 341 224 e1 ع ARABIC LETTER FEH
76 342 225 e2 ع ARABIC LETTER QAF
77 343 226 e3 ع ARABIC LETTER KAF
78 344 227 e4 ع ARABIC LETTER LAM
79 345 228 e5 ع
ARABIC LETTER MEEM
80 346 229 e6 ع ARABIC LETTER NOON
81 347 230 e7 ع ARABIC LETTER HEH
82 350 231 e8 ع ARABIC LETTER WAW
83 351 232 e9 ع ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
84 352 233 ea ع ARABIC LETTER YEH
85 353 234 eb ع ARABIC FATHATAN
86 354 235 ec ع ARABIC DAMMATAN
87 355 236 ed ع ARABIC KASRATAN
88 356 237 ee ع ARABIC FATHA
89 357 238 ef ع ARABIC DAMMA
90 360 239 f0 ع ARABIC KASRA
91 361 240 f1 ع ARABIC SHADDA
92 362 241 f2 ع ARABIC SUKUN
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95 ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such
96 as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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99 ascii(7)
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