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ISO_8859-6(7) | Linux Programmer's Manual | 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 | 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 | 223 | e0 | ـ | ARABIC TATWEEL |
341 | 224 | e1 | ف | ARABIC LETTER FEH |
342 | 225 | e2 | ق | ARABIC LETTER QAF |
343 | 226 | e3 | ك | ARABIC LETTER KAF |
344 | 227 | e4 | ل | ARABIC LETTER LAM |
345 | 228 | e5 | م | ARABIC LETTER MEEM |
346 | 229 | e6 | ن | ARABIC LETTER NOON |
347 | 230 | e7 | ه | ARABIC LETTER HEH |
350 | 231 | e8 | و | ARABIC LETTER WAW |
351 | 232 | e9 | ى | ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA |
352 | 233 | ea | ي | 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 |
NOTES¶
ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
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2009-01-27 | Linux |