1ISO_8859-6(7)              Linux Programmer's Manual             ISO_8859-6(7)
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NAME

6       iso_8859-6  -  ISO  8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and
7       hexadecimal
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DESCRIPTION

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.
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14   ISO 8859 alphabets
15       The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
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17       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)
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33   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.
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37       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
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67       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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NOTES

93       ISO  8859-6  lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such
94       as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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SEE ALSO

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

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