ISO_8859-6

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2009-01-27
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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	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	223	e0	ـ	ARABIC TATWEEL
341	224	e1	ف	ARABIC LETTER FEH
342	225	e2	ق	ARABIC LETTER QAF
343	226	e3	ك	ARABIC LETTER KAF
344	227	e4	ل	ARABIC LETTER LAM
345	228	e5	م	ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346	229	e6	ن	ARABIC LETTER NOON
347	230	e7	ه	ARABIC LETTER HEH
350	231	e8	و	ARABIC LETTER WAW
351	232	e9	ى	ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352	233	ea	ي	ARABIC LETTER YEH
353	234	eb	ً	ARABIC FATHATAN
354	235	ec	ٌ	ARABIC DAMMATAN
355	236	ed	ٍ	ARABIC KASRATAN
356	237	ee	َ	ARABIC FATHA
357	238	ef	ُ	ARABIC DAMMA
360	239	f0	ِ	ARABIC KASRA
361	240	f1	ّ	ARABIC SHADDA
362	241	f2	ْ	ARABIC SUKUN

NOTES

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

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