ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-6(7)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 آ NO-BREAK SPACE
244 164 a4 آ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
254 172 ac ظ ARABIC COMMA
255 173 ad آ SOFT HYPHEN
273 187 bb ظ ARABIC SEMICOLON
277 191 bf ظ ARABIC QUESTION MARK
301 193 c1 ظ ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302 194 c2 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303 195 c3 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304 196 c4 ظ¤ ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305 197 c5 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306 198 c6 ظ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307 199 c7 ظ ARABIC LETTER ALEF
310 200 c8 ظ ARABIC LETTER BEH
311 201 c9 ظ ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312 202 ca ظ ARABIC LETTER TEH
313 203 cb ظ ARABIC LETTER THEH
314 204 cc ظ، ARABIC LETTER JEEM
315 205 cd ظ ARABIC LETTER HAH
316 206 ce ظ ARABIC LETTER KHAH
317 207 cf ظ ARABIC LETTER DAL
320 208 d0 ظ ARABIC LETTER THAL
321 209 d1 ظ ARABIC LETTER REH
322 210 d2 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323 211 d3 ظ ARABIC LETTER SEEN
324 212 d4 ظ ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325 213 d5 ظ ARABIC LETTER SAD
326 214 d6 ظ ARABIC LETTER DAD
327 215 d7 ظ ARABIC LETTER TAH
330 216 d8 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331 217 d9 ظ ARABIC LETTER AIN
332 218 da ظ ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340 223 e0 ع ARABIC TATWEEL
341 224 e1 ع ARABIC LETTER FEH
342 225 e2 ع ARABIC LETTER QAF
343 226 e3 ع ARABIC LETTER KAF
344 227 e4 ع ARABIC LETTER LAM
345 228 e5 ع ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346 229 e6 ع ARABIC LETTER NOON
347 230 e7 ع ARABIC LETTER HEH
350 231 e8 ع ARABIC LETTER WAW
351 232 e9 ع ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352 233 ea ع ARABIC LETTER YEH
353 234 eb ع ARABIC FATHATAN
354 235 ec ع ARABIC DAMMATAN
355 236 ed ع ARABIC KASRATAN
356 237 ee ع ARABIC FATHA
357 238 ef ع ARABIC DAMMA
360 239 f0 ع ARABIC KASRA
361 240 f1 ع ARABIC SHADDA
362 241 f2 ع ARABIC SUKUN
NOTES
ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such
as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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Linux 2009-01-27 ISO_8859-6(7)