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.TH ISO_8859-6 7 2014-10-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

.SH NAME

iso_8859-6 \- ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,

and hexadecimal

.SH 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.

.SS ISO 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

.TS

l l.

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)

.TE

.SS ISO 8859-6 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6 that

are printable and unlisted in the

.BR ascii (7)

manual page.

.TS

l l l c lp-1.

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

.TE

.SH NOTES

ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages,

such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR ascii (7),

.BR charsets (7),

.BR utf-8 (7)

.SH COLOPHON

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