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NAME
iso_8859-6 - ISO/IEC 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
DESCRIPTION
The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV). ISO/IEC 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language.
ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes:
| ISO/IEC 8859-1 | West European languages (Latin-1) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-2 | Central and East European languages (Latin-2) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-3 | Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-4 | Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic |
| ISO/IEC 8859-6 | Latin/Arabic |
| ISO/IEC 8859-7 | Latin/Greek |
| ISO/IEC 8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew |
| ISO/IEC 8859-9 | Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-10 | Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-11 | Latin/Thai |
| ISO/IEC 8859-13 | Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-14 | Celtic (Latin-8) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-15 | West European languages (Latin-9) |
| ISO/IEC 8859-16 | Romanian (Latin-10) |
ISO/IEC 8859-6 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-6 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.
| 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 | ء | ARABIC LETTER HAMZA |
| 302 | 194 | C2 | آ | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE |
| 303 | 195 | C3 | أ | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE |
| 304 | 196 | C4 | ؤ | ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE |
| 305 | 197 | C5 | إ | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW |
| 306 | 198 | C6 | ئ | ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE |
| 307 | 199 | C7 | ا | ARABIC LETTER ALEF |
| 310 | 200 | C8 | ب | ARABIC LETTER BEH |
| 311 | 201 | C9 | ة | ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA |
| 312 | 202 | CA | ت | ARABIC LETTER TEH |
| 313 | 203 | CB | ث | ARABIC LETTER THEH |
| 314 | 204 | CC | ج | ARABIC LETTER JEEM |
| 315 | 205 | CD | ح | ARABIC LETTER HAH |
| 316 | 206 | CE | خ | ARABIC LETTER KHAH |
| 317 | 207 | CF | د | ARABIC LETTER DAL |
| 320 | 208 | D0 | ذ | ARABIC LETTER THAL |
| 321 | 209 | D1 | ر | ARABIC LETTER REH |
| 322 | 210 | D2 | ز | ARABIC LETTER ZAIN |
| 323 | 211 | D3 | س | ARABIC LETTER SEEN |
| 324 | 212 | D4 | ش | ARABIC LETTER SHEEN |
| 325 | 213 | D5 | ص | ARABIC LETTER SAD |
| 326 | 214 | D6 | ض | ARABIC LETTER DAD |
| 327 | 215 | D7 | ط | ARABIC LETTER TAH |
| 330 | 216 | D8 | ظ | ARABIC LETTER ZAH |
| 331 | 217 | D9 | ع | ARABIC LETTER AIN |
| 332 | 218 | DA | غ | ARABIC LETTER GHAIN |
| 340 | 224 | E0 | ـ | ARABIC TATWEEL |
| 341 | 225 | E1 | ف | ARABIC LETTER FEH |
| 342 | 226 | E2 | ق | ARABIC LETTER QAF |
| 343 | 227 | E3 | ك | ARABIC LETTER KAF |
| 344 | 228 | E4 | ل | ARABIC LETTER LAM |
| 345 | 229 | E5 | م | ARABIC LETTER MEEM |
| 346 | 230 | E6 | ن | ARABIC LETTER NOON |
| 347 | 231 | E7 | ه | ARABIC LETTER HEH |
| 350 | 232 | E8 | و | ARABIC LETTER WAW |
| 351 | 233 | E9 | ى | ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA |
| 352 | 234 | EA | ي | ARABIC LETTER YEH |
| 353 | 235 | EB | ً | ARABIC FATHATAN |
| 354 | 236 | EC | ٌ | ARABIC DAMMATAN |
| 355 | 237 | ED | ٍ | ARABIC KASRATAN |
| 356 | 238 | EE | َ | ARABIC FATHA |
| 357 | 239 | EF | ُ | ARABIC DAMMA |
| 360 | 240 | F0 | ِ | ARABIC KASRA |
| 361 | 241 | F1 | ّ | ARABIC SHADDA |
| 362 | 242 | F2 | ْ | ARABIC SUKUN |
NOTES
ISO/IEC 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
SEE ALSO
ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)