NAME
iso8859-6 - 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 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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 Á ARABIC LETTER HAMZA 302 194 C2 Â ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE 303 195 C3 Ã ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE 304 196 C4 Ä ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE 305 197 C5 Å ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW 306 198 C6 Æ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE 307 199 C7 Ç ARABIC LETTER ALEF 310 200 C8 È ARABIC LETTER BEH 311 201 C9 É ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA 312 202 CA Ê ARABIC LETTER TEH 313 203 CB Ë ARABIC LETTER THEH 314 204 CC Ì ARABIC LETTER JEEM 315 205 CD Í ARABIC LETTER HAH 316 206 CE Î ARABIC LETTER KHAH 317 207 CF Ï ARABIC LETTER DAL 320 208 D0 Ð ARABIC LETTER THAL 321 209 D1 Ñ ARABIC LETTER REH 322 210 D2 Ò ARABIC LETTER ZAIN 323 211 D3 Ó ARABIC LETTER SEEN 324 212 D4 Ô ARABIC LETTER SHEEN 325 213 D5 Õ ARABIC LETTER SAD 326 214 D6 Ö ARABIC LETTER DAD 327 215 D7 × ARABIC LETTER TAH 330 216 D8 Ø ARABIC LETTER ZAH 331 217 D9 Ù ARABIC LETTER AIN 332 218 DA Ú ARABIC LETTER GHAIN 340 224 E0 à ARABIC TATWEEL 341 225 E1 á ARABIC LETTER FEH 342 226 E2 â ARABIC LETTER QAF 343 227 E3 ã ARABIC LETTER KAF 344 228 E4 ä ARABIC LETTER LAM 345 229 E5 å ARABIC LETTER MEEM 346 230 E6 æ ARABIC LETTER NOON 347 231 E7 ç ARABIC LETTER HEH 350 232 E8 è ARABIC LETTER WAW 351 233 E9 é ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA 352 234 EA ê ARABIC LETTER YEH 353 235 EB ë ARABIC FATHATAN 354 236 EC ì ARABIC DAMMATAN 355 237 ED í ARABIC KASRATAN 356 238 EE î ARABIC FATHA 357 239 EF ï ARABIC DAMMA 360 240 F0 ð ARABIC KASRA 361 241 F1 ñ ARABIC SHADDA 362 242 F2 ò 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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