ISO_8859-6(7)

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).

SEE ALSO
ascii(7)

COLOPHON
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