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ISO_8859-6

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

NAME

DESCRIPTION

ISO 8859 Alphabets

ISO 8859-6 Characters

NOTES

SEE ALSO

COLOPHON

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