ISO/IEC 8859-6

ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Arabic. It was designed to cover languages using the Arabic alphabet (though it does not include the extra letters needed to write most Arabic-script languages other than Arabic itself, such as Persian, Urdu, etc.). Only nominal letters are encoded, no preshaped forms of the letters, so shaping processing is required for display.

ISO-8859-6 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. The text is in logical order, so bidi processing is required for display. Nominally ISO-8859-6 (code page 28596) is for “visual order”, and ISO-8859-6-I (code page 38596) is for logical order. But in practice, and required for HTML and XML documents, ISO-8859-6 also stands for logical order text. There is also ISO-8859-6-E which supposedly requires directionality to be explicitly specified with special control characters; this latter variant is in practice unused.

The range 0x80-0xFF is based on the 7-bit encoding standard ASMO 449.

Codepage layout

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  Control character
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#
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$
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%
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&
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+
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k
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l
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o
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NBSP
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SHY
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ة
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ت
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ث
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ج
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خ
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د
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ز
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ش
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ض
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ط
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ظ
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ع
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غ
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ف
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ق
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ك
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ل
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م
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ن
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ه
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و
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ي
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◌ً
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◌ٌ
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◌ٍ
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◌َ
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◌ُ
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◌ِ
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◌ّ
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◌ْ
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Code values 0xEB0xF2 are assigned to combining characters.

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