iso_8859_6

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Version: 2009-01-27 (ubuntu - 25/10/10)

Section: 7 (Divers)

NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

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

ISO 8859 Alphabets

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

ISO 8859-6 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6.
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 Á ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302 194 c2 Â ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303 195 c3 Ã ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304 196 c4 Ä ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305 197 c5 Å ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306 198 c6 Æ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307 199 c7 Ç ARABIC LETTER ALEF
310 200 c8 È ARABIC LETTER BEH
311 201 c9 É ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312 202 ca Ê ARABIC LETTER TEH
313 203 cb Ë ARABIC LETTER THEH
314 204 cc Ì ARABIC LETTER JEEM
315 205 cd Í ARABIC LETTER HAH
316 206 ce Î ARABIC LETTER KHAH
317 207 cf Ï ARABIC LETTER DAL
320 208 d0 Ð ARABIC LETTER THAL
321 209 d1 Ñ ARABIC LETTER REH
322 210 d2 Ò ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323 211 d3 Ó ARABIC LETTER SEEN
324 212 d4 Ô ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325 213 d5 Õ ARABIC LETTER SAD
326 214 d6 Ö ARABIC LETTER DAD
327 215 d7 × ARABIC LETTER TAH
330 216 d8 Ø ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331 217 d9 Ù ARABIC LETTER AIN
332 218 da Ú ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340 223 e0 à ARABIC TATWEEL
341 224 e1 á ARABIC LETTER FEH
342 225 e2 â ARABIC LETTER QAF
343 226 e3 ã ARABIC LETTER KAF
344 227 e4 ä ARABIC LETTER LAM
345 228 e5 å ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346 229 e6 æ ARABIC LETTER NOON
347 230 e7 ç ARABIC LETTER HEH
350 231 e8 è ARABIC LETTER WAW
351 232 e9 é ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352 233 ea ê ARABIC LETTER YEH
353 234 eb ë ARABIC FATHATAN
354 235 ec ì ARABIC DAMMATAN
355 236 ed í ARABIC KASRATAN
356 237 ee î ARABIC FATHA
357 238 ef ï ARABIC DAMMA
360 239 f0 ð ARABIC KASRA
361 240 f1 ñ ARABIC SHADDA
362 241 f2 ò ARABIC SUKUN

NOTES

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

SEE ALSO

ascii(7)

COLOPHON

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