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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أ 0623 195 |
ؤ 0624 196 |
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ا 0627 199 |
ب 0628 200 |
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ذ 0630 208 |
ر 0631 209 |
ز 0632 210 |
س 0633 211 |
ش 0634 212 |
ص 0635 213 |
ض 0636 214 |
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ظ 0638 216 |
ع 0639 217 |
غ 063A 218 |
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ـ 0640 224 |
ف 0641 225 |
ق 0642 226 |
ك 0643 227 |
ل 0644 228 |
م 0645 229 |
ن 0646 230 |
ه 0647 231 |
و 0648 232 |
ى 0649 233 |
ي 064A 234 |
◌ً 064B 235 |
◌ٌ 064C 236 |
◌ٍ 064D 237 |
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◌ِ 0650 240 |
◌ّ 0651 241 |
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Code values 0xEB–0xF2 are assigned to combining characters.
See also
- Windows-1256 (Windows Arabic-alphabet codepage, more common in practical use in the 1990s)
External links
- ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999
- Standard ECMA-114: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Arabic Alphabet 2nd edition (December 2000)
- ISO-IR 127 Right-Hand Part of Latin/Arabic Alphabet (November 30, 1986)
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