ISO_8859-6

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2010-09-20
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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 8859-1West 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. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6.
OctDecHexCharDescription
240160a0 NO-BREAK SPACE
244164a4¤CURRENCY SIGN
254172ac¬ARABIC COMMA
255173ad­SOFT HYPHEN
273187bb»ARABIC SEMICOLON
277191bf¿ARABIC QUESTION MARK
301193c1ÁARABIC LETTER HAMZA
302194c2ÂARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
303195c3ÃARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
304196c4ÄARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
305197c5ÅARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
306198c6ÆARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
307199c7ÇARABIC LETTER ALEF
310200c8ÈARABIC LETTER BEH
311201c9ÉARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
312202caÊARABIC LETTER TEH
313203cbËARABIC LETTER THEH
314204ccÌARABIC LETTER JEEM
315205cdÍARABIC LETTER HAH
316206ceÎARABIC LETTER KHAH
317207cfÏARABIC LETTER DAL
320208d0ÐARABIC LETTER THAL
321209d1ÑARABIC LETTER REH
322210d2ÒARABIC LETTER ZAIN
323211d3ÓARABIC LETTER SEEN
324212d4ÔARABIC LETTER SHEEN
325213d5ÕARABIC LETTER SAD
326214d6ÖARABIC LETTER DAD
327215d7×ARABIC LETTER TAH
330216d8ØARABIC LETTER ZAH
331217d9ÙARABIC LETTER AIN
332218daÚARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340224e0àARABIC TATWEEL
341225e1áARABIC LETTER FEH
342226e2âARABIC LETTER QAF
343227e3ãARABIC LETTER KAF
344228e4äARABIC LETTER LAM
345229e5åARABIC LETTER MEEM
346230e6æARABIC LETTER NOON
347231e7çARABIC LETTER HEH
350232e8èARABIC LETTER WAW
351233e9éARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352234eaêARABIC LETTER YEH
353235ebë ARABIC FATHATAN
354236ecì ARABIC DAMMATAN
355237edí ARABIC KASRATAN
356238eeî ARABIC FATHA
357239efï ARABIC DAMMA
360240f0ð ARABIC KASRA
361241f1ñ ARABIC SHADDA
362242f2ò 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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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
ISO 8859 Alphabets
ISO 8859-6 Characters
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
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