# iso_8859-6

## NAME



           iso_8859-6 - ISO/IEC 8859-6 character set encoded in octal,
           decimal, and hexadecimal
    


## DESCRIPTION



           The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the
           ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV).
           ISO/IEC 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language.
    
       **ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets**
           The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes:
           ISO/IEC 8859-1    West European languages (Latin-1)
           ISO/IEC 8859-2    Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
           ISO/IEC 8859-3    Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
           ISO/IEC 8859-4    Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
           ISO/IEC 8859-5    Latin/Cyrillic
           ISO/IEC 8859-6    Latin/Arabic
           ISO/IEC 8859-7    Latin/Greek
           ISO/IEC 8859-8    Latin/Hebrew
           ISO/IEC 8859-9    Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
           ISO/IEC 8859-10   Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
           ISO/IEC 8859-11   Latin/Thai
           ISO/IEC 8859-13   Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
           ISO/IEC 8859-14   Celtic (Latin-8)
           ISO/IEC 8859-15   West European languages (Latin-9)
           ISO/IEC 8859-16   Romanian (Latin-10)
    
       **ISO/IEC 8859-6 characters**
           The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 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
    


## NOTES



           ISO/IEC 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related
           languages, such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).
    


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