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ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-6(7)
iso_8859-6 - the ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hex-
adecimal
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.
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)
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 ? ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302 194 c2 ? ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303 195 c3 ? ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304 196 c4 ? ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305 197 c5 ? ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306 198 c6 AE ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307 199 c7 ? ARABIC LETTER ALEF
310 200 c8 ? ARABIC LETTER BEH
311 201 c9 ? ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312 202 ca ? ARABIC LETTER TEH
313 203 cb ? ARABIC LETTER THEH
314 204 cc ? ARABIC LETTER JEEM
315 205 cd ? ARABIC LETTER HAH
316 206 ce ? ARABIC LETTER KHAH
317 207 cf ? ARABIC LETTER DAL
320 208 d0 ? ARABIC LETTER THAL
321 209 d1 ? ARABIC LETTER REH
322 210 d2 ? ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323 211 d3 ? ARABIC LETTER SEEN
324 212 d4 ? ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325 213 d5 ? ARABIC LETTER SAD
326 214 d6 ? ARABIC LETTER DAD
327 215 d7 x ARABIC LETTER TAH
330 216 d8 ? ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331 217 d9 ? ARABIC LETTER AIN
332 218 da ? ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340 223 e0 ? ARABIC TATWEEL
341 224 e1 ? ARABIC LETTER FEH
342 225 e2 ? ARABIC LETTER QAF
343 226 e3 ? ARABIC LETTER KAF
344 227 e4 ? ARABIC LETTER LAM
345 228 e5 ? ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346 229 e6 ae ARABIC LETTER NOON
347 230 e7 ? ARABIC LETTER HEH
350 231 e8 ? ARABIC LETTER WAW
351 232 e9 ? ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352 233 ea ? ARABIC LETTER YEH
353 234 eb ? ARABIC FATHATAN
354 235 ec ? ARABIC DAMMATAN
355 236 ed ? ARABIC KASRATAN
356 237 ee ? ARABIC FATHA
357 238 ef ? ARABIC DAMMA
360 239 f0 ? ARABIC KASRA
361 240 f1 ? ARABIC SHADDA
362 241 f2 ? ARABIC SUKUN
ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu
and Persian (Farsi).
ascii(7)
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Linux 2009-01-27 ISO_8859-6(7)