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ISO_8859-6

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2014-10-02
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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 8859-1West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16Romanian (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.
OctDecHexCharDescription

240160A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
244164A4¤CURRENCY SIGN
254172AC،ARABIC COMMA
255173AD­SOFT HYPHEN
273187BB؛ARABIC SEMICOLON
277191BF؟ARABIC QUESTION MARK
301193C1ءARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302194C2آARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303195C3أARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304196C4ؤARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305197C5إARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306198C6ئARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307199C7اARABIC LETTER ALEF
310200C8بARABIC LETTER BEH
311201C9ةARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312202CAتARABIC LETTER TEH
313203CBثARABIC LETTER THEH
314204CCجARABIC LETTER JEEM
315205CDحARABIC LETTER HAH
316206CEخARABIC LETTER KHAH
317207CFدARABIC LETTER DAL
320208D0ذARABIC LETTER THAL
321209D1رARABIC LETTER REH
322210D2زARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323211D3سARABIC LETTER SEEN
324212D4شARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325213D5صARABIC LETTER SAD
326214D6ضARABIC LETTER DAD
327215D7طARABIC LETTER TAH
330216D8ظARABIC LETTER ZAH
331217D9عARABIC LETTER AIN
332218DAغARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340224E0ـARABIC TATWEEL
341225E1فARABIC LETTER FEH
342226E2قARABIC LETTER QAF
343227E3كARABIC LETTER KAF
344228E4لARABIC LETTER LAM
345229E5مARABIC LETTER MEEM
346230E6نARABIC LETTER NOON
347231E7هARABIC LETTER HEH
350232E8وARABIC LETTER WAW
351233E9ىARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352234EAيARABIC LETTER YEH
353235EBً ARABIC FATHATAN
354236ECٌ ARABIC DAMMATAN
355237EDٍ ARABIC KASRATAN
356238EEَ ARABIC FATHA
357239EFُ ARABIC DAMMA
360240F0ِ ARABIC KASRA
361241F1ّ ARABIC SHADDA
362242F2ْ 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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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
ISO 8859 alphabets
ISO 8859-6 characters
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON

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