ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual 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. The fourth column
will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
244 164 A4 EUR CURRENCY SIGN
254 172 AC ~ ARABIC COMMA
255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
273 187 BB >> ARABIC SEMICOLON
277 191 BF c ARABIC QUESTION MARK
301 193 C1 A ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302 194 C2 A ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303 195 C3 A ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304 196 C4 A ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305 197 C5 A ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306 198 C6 AE ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307 199 C7 C ARABIC LETTER ALEF
310 200 C8 E ARABIC LETTER BEH
311 201 C9 E ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312 202 CA E ARABIC LETTER TEH
313 203 CB E ARABIC LETTER THEH
314 204 CC I ARABIC LETTER JEEM
315 205 CD I ARABIC LETTER HAH
316 206 CE I ARABIC LETTER KHAH
317 207 CF I ARABIC LETTER DAL
320 208 D0 D ARABIC LETTER THAL
321 209 D1 N ARABIC LETTER REH
322 210 D2 O ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323 211 D3 O ARABIC LETTER SEEN
324 212 D4 O ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325 213 D5 O ARABIC LETTER SAD
326 214 D6 O ARABIC LETTER DAD
327 215 D7 x ARABIC LETTER TAH
330 216 D8 O ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331 217 D9 U ARABIC LETTER AIN
332 218 DA U ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340 224 E0 a ARABIC TATWEEL
341 225 E1 a ARABIC LETTER FEH
342 226 E2 a ARABIC LETTER QAF
343 227 E3 a ARABIC LETTER KAF
344 228 E4 a ARABIC LETTER LAM
345 229 E5 a ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346 230 E6 ae ARABIC LETTER NOON
347 231 E7 c ARABIC LETTER HEH
350 232 E8 e ARABIC LETTER WAW
351 233 E9 e ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352 234 EA e ARABIC LETTER YEH
353 235 EB e ARABIC FATHATAN
354 236 EC i ARABIC DAMMATAN
355 237 ED i ARABIC KASRATAN
356 238 EE i ARABIC FATHA
357 239 EF i ARABIC DAMMA
360 240 F0 o ARABIC KASRA
361 241 F1 n ARABIC SHADDA
362 242 F2 o 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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Linux 2010-09-20 ISO_8859-6(7)