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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