2 .\" Copyright 2009 Lefteris Dimitroulakis (edimitro@tee.gr)
4 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
6 .TH ISO_8859-6 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
10 ISO/IEC\~8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
13 The ISO/IEC\~8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
14 character set (also known as ISO/IEC\~646-IRV).
15 ISO/IEC\~8859-6 encodes the
16 characters used in the Arabic language.
17 .SS ISO/IEC\~8859 alphabets
18 The full set of ISO/IEC\~8859 alphabets includes:
21 ISO/IEC\~8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
22 ISO/IEC\~8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
23 ISO/IEC\~8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
24 ISO/IEC\~8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
25 ISO/IEC\~8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
26 ISO/IEC\~8859-6 Latin/Arabic
27 ISO/IEC\~8859-7 Latin/Greek
28 ISO/IEC\~8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
29 ISO/IEC\~8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
30 ISO/IEC\~8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
31 ISO/IEC\~8859-11 Latin/Thai
32 ISO/IEC\~8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
33 ISO/IEC\~8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
34 ISO/IEC\~8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
35 ISO/IEC\~8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
37 .SS ISO/IEC\~8859-6 characters
38 The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC\~8859-6 that
39 are printable and unlisted in the
44 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
46 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
47 244 164 A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
48 254 172 AC ، ARABIC COMMA
49 255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
50 273 187 BB ؛ ARABIC SEMICOLON
51 277 191 BF ؟ ARABIC QUESTION MARK
52 301 193 C1 ء ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
53 302 194 C2 آ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
54 303 195 C3 أ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
55 304 196 C4 ؤ ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
56 305 197 C5 إ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
57 306 198 C6 ئ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
58 307 199 C7 ا ARABIC LETTER ALEF
59 310 200 C8 ب ARABIC LETTER BEH
60 311 201 C9 ة ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
61 312 202 CA ت ARABIC LETTER TEH
62 313 203 CB ث ARABIC LETTER THEH
63 314 204 CC ج ARABIC LETTER JEEM
64 315 205 CD ح ARABIC LETTER HAH
65 316 206 CE خ ARABIC LETTER KHAH
66 317 207 CF د ARABIC LETTER DAL
67 320 208 D0 ذ ARABIC LETTER THAL
68 321 209 D1 ر ARABIC LETTER REH
69 322 210 D2 ز ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
70 323 211 D3 س ARABIC LETTER SEEN
71 324 212 D4 ش ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
72 325 213 D5 ص ARABIC LETTER SAD
73 326 214 D6 ض ARABIC LETTER DAD
74 327 215 D7 ط ARABIC LETTER TAH
75 330 216 D8 ظ ARABIC LETTER ZAH
76 331 217 D9 ع ARABIC LETTER AIN
77 332 218 DA غ ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
78 340 224 E0 ـ ARABIC TATWEEL
79 341 225 E1 ف ARABIC LETTER FEH
80 342 226 E2 ق ARABIC LETTER QAF
81 343 227 E3 ك ARABIC LETTER KAF
82 344 228 E4 ل ARABIC LETTER LAM
83 345 229 E5 م ARABIC LETTER MEEM
84 346 230 E6 ن ARABIC LETTER NOON
85 347 231 E7 ه ARABIC LETTER HEH
86 350 232 E8 و ARABIC LETTER WAW
87 351 233 E9 ى ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
88 352 234 EA ي ARABIC LETTER YEH
89 353 235 EB ً ARABIC FATHATAN
90 354 236 EC ٌ ARABIC DAMMATAN
91 355 237 ED ٍ ARABIC KASRATAN
92 356 238 EE َ ARABIC FATHA
93 357 239 EF ُ ARABIC DAMMA
94 360 240 F0 ِ ARABIC KASRA
95 361 241 F1 ّ ARABIC SHADDA
96 362 242 F2 ْ ARABIC SUKUN
99 ISO/IEC\~8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages,
100 such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).