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ISO_8859-6(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-6(7)

NAME

iso_8859-6 - 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
340 224 E0 à ARABIC TATWEEL
341 225 E1 á ARABIC LETTER FEH
342 226 E2 â ARABIC LETTER QAF
343 227 E3 ã ARABIC LETTER KAF
344 228 E4 ä ARABIC LETTER LAM
345 229 E5 å ARABIC LETTER MEEM
346 230 E6 æ ARABIC LETTER NOON
347 231 E7 ç ARABIC LETTER HEH
350 232 E8 è ARABIC LETTER WAW
351 233 E9 é ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
352 234 EA ê ARABIC LETTER YEH
353 235 EB ë ARABIC FATHATAN
354 236 EC ì ARABIC DAMMATAN
355 237 ED í ARABIC KASRATAN
356 238 EE î ARABIC FATHA
357 239 EF ï ARABIC DAMMA
360 240 F0 ð ARABIC KASRA
361 241 F1 ñ ARABIC SHADDA
362 242 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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2010-09-20 Linux