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.

This character set is the same as the Arabic Standard ASMO 708.

Codepage layout

Legend:

Alphabetic   Control character   Numeric digit   Punctuation

Extended punctuation   Graphic character   International   Undefined

ISO/IEC 8859-6

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_
1_
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126
8_
9_
A_	NBSP 00A0 160				¤ 00A4 164								، 060C 172	SHY 00AD 173
B_												؛ 061B 187				؟ 061F 191
C_		ء 0621 193	آ 0622 194	أ 0623 195	ؤ 0624 196	إ 0625 197	ئ 0626 198	ا 0627 199	ب 0628 200	ة 0629 201	ت 062A 202	ث 062B 203	ج 062C 204	ح 062D 205	خ 062E 206	د 062F 207
D_	ذ 0630 208	ر 0631 209	ز 0632 210	س 0633 211	ش 0634 212	ص 0635 213	ض 0636 214	ط 0637 215	ظ 0638 216	ع 0639 217	غ 063A 218
E_	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	◌َ 064E 238	◌ُ 064F 239
F_	◌ِ 0650 240	◌ّ 0651 241	◌ْ 0652 242
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

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)