1ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-6(7)
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6 iso_8859-6 - ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and
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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 that are
35 printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.
36 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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39 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
40 244 164 A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
41 254 172 AC ، ARABIC COMMA
42 255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
43 273 187 BB ؛ ARABIC SEMICOLON
44 277 191 BF ؟ ARABIC QUESTION MARK
45 301 193 C1 ء ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
46 302 194 C2 آ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
47 303 195 C3 أ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
48 304 196 C4 ؤ ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
49 305 197 C5 إ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
50 306 198 C6 ئ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
51 307 199 C7 ا ARABIC LETTER ALEF
52 310 200 C8 ب ARABIC LETTER BEH
53 311 201 C9 ة ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
54 312 202 CA ت ARABIC LETTER TEH
55 313 203 CB ث ARABIC LETTER THEH
56 314 204 CC ج ARABIC LETTER JEEM
57 315 205 CD ح ARABIC LETTER HAH
58 316 206 CE خ ARABIC LETTER KHAH
59 317 207 CF د ARABIC LETTER DAL
60 320 208 D0 ذ ARABIC LETTER THAL
61 321 209 D1 ر ARABIC LETTER REH
62 322 210 D2 ز ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
63 323 211 D3 س ARABIC LETTER SEEN
64 324 212 D4 ش ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
65 325 213 D5 ص ARABIC LETTER SAD
66 326 214 D6 ض ARABIC LETTER DAD
68 327 215 D7 ط ARABIC LETTER TAH
69 330 216 D8 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAH
70 331 217 D9 ع ARABIC LETTER AIN
71 332 218 DA غ ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
72 340 224 E0 ـ ARABIC TATWEEL
73 341 225 E1 ف ARABIC LETTER FEH
74 342 226 E2 ق ARABIC LETTER QAF
75 343 227 E3 ك ARABIC LETTER KAF
76 344 228 E4 ل ARABIC LETTER LAM
77 345 229 E5 م ARABIC LETTER MEEM
78 346 230 E6 ن ARABIC LETTER NOON
79 347 231 E7 ه ARABIC LETTER HEH
80 350 232 E8 و ARABIC LETTER WAW
81 351 233 E9 ى ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
82 352 234 EA ي ARABIC LETTER YEH
83 353 235 EB ً ARABIC FATHATAN
84 354 236 EC ٌ ARABIC DAMMATAN
85 355 237 ED ٍ ARABIC KASRATAN
86 356 238 EE َ ARABIC FATHA
87 357 239 EF ُ ARABIC DAMMA
88 360 240 F0 ِ ARABIC KASRA
89 361 241 F1 ّ ARABIC SHADDA
90 362 242 F2 ْ ARABIC SUKUN
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93 ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such
94 as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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97 ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)
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