iso-8859-6(7)

ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,

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Description

ISO_8859-6

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:

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ISO 8859-6 characters

	The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

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NOTES

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