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 | 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 | 223 | e0 | à | ARABIC TATWEEL |
| 341 | 224 | e1 | á | ARABIC LETTER FEH |
| 342 | 225 | e2 | â | ARABIC LETTER QAF |
| 343 | 226 | e3 | ã | ARABIC LETTER KAF |
| 344 | 227 | e4 | ä | ARABIC LETTER LAM |
| 345 | 228 | e5 | å | ARABIC LETTER MEEM |
| 346 | 229 | e6 | æ | ARABIC LETTER NOON |
| 347 | 230 | e7 | ç | ARABIC LETTER HEH |
| 350 | 231 | e8 | è | ARABIC LETTER WAW |
| 351 | 232 | e9 | é | ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA |
| 352 | 233 | ea | ê | ARABIC LETTER YEH |
| 353 | 234 | eb | ë | ARABIC FATHATAN |
| 354 | 235 | ec | ì | ARABIC DAMMATAN |
| 355 | 236 | ed | í | ARABIC KASRATAN |
| 356 | 237 | ee | î | ARABIC FATHA |
| 357 | 238 | ef | ï | ARABIC DAMMA |
| 360 | 239 | f0 | ð | ARABIC KASRA |
| 361 | 240 | f1 | ñ | ARABIC SHADDA |
| 362 | 241 | f2 | ò | ARABIC SUKUN |
NOTES
ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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