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23 .TH ISO_8859-6 7 2009-01-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
25 iso_8859-6 \- the ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
28 The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
29 character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
30 ISO 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language.
31 .SS "ISO 8859 Alphabets"
32 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
35 ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
36 ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
37 ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
38 ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
39 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
40 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
41 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
42 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
43 ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
44 ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
45 ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
46 ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
47 ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
48 ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
49 ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
51 .SS "ISO 8859-6 Characters"
52 The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6, which
53 are printable and unlisted in the
56 The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
57 in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6.
60 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
62 240 160 a0 NO-BREAK SPACE
63 244 164 a4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
64 254 172 ac ¬ ARABIC COMMA
65 255 173 ad SOFT HYPHEN
66 273 187 bb » ARABIC SEMICOLON
67 277 191 bf ¿ ARABIC QUESTION MARK
68 301 193 c1 Á ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
69 302 194 c2 Â ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
70 303 195 c3 Ã ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
71 304 196 c4 Ä ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
72 305 197 c5 Å ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
73 306 198 c6 Æ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
74 307 199 c7 Ç ARABIC LETTER ALEF
75 310 200 c8 È ARABIC LETTER BEH
76 311 201 c9 É ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
77 312 202 ca Ê ARABIC LETTER TEH
78 313 203 cb Ë ARABIC LETTER THEH
79 314 204 cc Ì ARABIC LETTER JEEM
80 315 205 cd Í ARABIC LETTER HAH
81 316 206 ce Î ARABIC LETTER KHAH
82 317 207 cf Ï ARABIC LETTER DAL
83 320 208 d0 Ð ARABIC LETTER THAL
84 321 209 d1 Ñ ARABIC LETTER REH
85 322 210 d2 Ò ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
86 323 211 d3 Ó ARABIC LETTER SEEN
87 324 212 d4 Ô ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
88 325 213 d5 Õ ARABIC LETTER SAD
89 326 214 d6 Ö ARABIC LETTER DAD
90 327 215 d7 × ARABIC LETTER TAH
91 330 216 d8 Ø ARABIC LETTER ZAH
92 331 217 d9 Ù ARABIC LETTER AIN
93 332 218 da Ú ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
94 340 223 e0 à ARABIC TATWEEL
95 341 224 e1 á ARABIC LETTER FEH
96 342 225 e2 â ARABIC LETTER QAF
97 343 226 e3 ã ARABIC LETTER KAF
98 344 227 e4 ä ARABIC LETTER LAM
99 345 228 e5 å ARABIC LETTER MEEM
100 346 229 e6 æ ARABIC LETTER NOON
101 347 230 e7 ç ARABIC LETTER HEH
102 350 231 e8 è ARABIC LETTER WAW
103 351 232 e9 é ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
104 352 233 ea ê ARABIC LETTER YEH
105 353 234 eb ë ARABIC FATHATAN
106 354 235 ec ì ARABIC DAMMATAN
107 355 236 ed í ARABIC KASRATAN
108 356 237 ee î ARABIC FATHA
109 357 238 ef ï ARABIC DAMMA
110 360 239 f0 ð ARABIC KASRA
111 361 240 f1 ñ ARABIC SHADDA
112 362 241 f2 ò ARABIC SUKUN
115 ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages,
116 such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).