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ISO_8859-6

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2010-09-20
Index Return to Main Contents

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	�	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	�	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	�	ARABIC LETTER TAH
330	216	d8	�	ARABIC LETTER ZAH
331	217	d9	�	ARABIC LETTER AIN
332	218	da	�	ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
340	224	e0	�	ARABIC TATWEEL
341	225	e1	�	ARABIC LETTER FEH
342	226	e2	�	ARABIC LETTER QAF
343	227	e3	�	ARABIC LETTER KAF
344	228	e4	�	ARABIC LETTER LAM
345	229	e5	�	ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346	230	e6	�	ARABIC LETTER NOON
347	231	e7	�	ARABIC LETTER HEH
350	232	e8	�	ARABIC LETTER WAW
351	233	e9	�	ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352	234	ea	�	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 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).

COLOPHON

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