iso_8859-6 - ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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.
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) |
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6 that are printable and
unlisted in the
ascii(7) manual page.
| 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 |
224 |
E0 |
ـ |
ARABIC TATWEEL |
| 341 |
225 |
E1 |
ف |
ARABIC LETTER FEH |
| 342 |
226 |
E2 |
ق |
ARABIC LETTER QAF |
| 343 |
227 |
E3 |
ك |
ARABIC LETTER KAF |
| 344 |
228 |
E4 |
ل |
ARABIC LETTER LAM |
| 345 |
229 |
E5 |
م |
ARABIC LETTER MEEM |
| 346 |
230 |
E6 |
ن |
ARABIC LETTER NOON |
| 347 |
231 |
E7 |
ه |
ARABIC LETTER HEH |
| 350 |
232 |
E8 |
و |
ARABIC LETTER WAW |
| 351 |
233 |
E9 |
ى |
ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA |
| 352 |
234 |
EA |
ي |
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 |
ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, such as Urdu
and Persian (Farsi).
ascii(7),
charsets(7),
utf-8(7)