ISO_8859-6(7)

NAME
iso_8859-6 - 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.
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 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)

COLOPHON
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