ISO_8859-6(7)

💖 ISO_8859-6 — iso_8859-6(7) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're doing a whole character set today and honestly? she's iconic. this is the manual page for iso_8859-6 — that's the ISO/IEC 8859-6 character set, and we're gonna look at it in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

iso_8859-6 — the ISO/IEC 8859-6 character set, written out all cute in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the ISO/IEC 8859 standard is basically this whole family of 8-bit extensions bolted onto the ASCII character set (which also goes by the name ISO/IEC 646-IRV, iykyk). and ISO/IEC 8859-6 specifically? she encodes the characters used in the Arabic language. periodt. 🎀

💫 ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

here's the whole girl group, all fifteen of them + the one you're reading about right now:

• 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 ⬅️ that's her, that's the main character
• 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)

bestie note: yes, 12 is missing from the list. that's not me being flaky, that's just how the standard's lineup goes. 💀

🧚 ISO/IEC 8859-6 characters

okay so here's the glow-up table — every character in ISO/IEC 8859-6 that's printable and not already listed over in the ascii(7) manual page. the columns are Oct, Dec, Hex, Char, Description, mwah 💋

• 240 / 160 / A0 — (no glyph to show) — NO-BREAK SPACE
• 244 / 164 / A4 — ¤ — CURRENCY SIGN
• 254 / 172 / AC — ، — ARABIC COMMA
• 255 / 173 / AD — (no glyph to show) — 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

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🔥 NOTES 🔥

ngl, ISO/IEC 8859-6 does not have the glyphs required for a bunch of related languages — like Urdu and Persian (Farsi). so if you're trying to do those in this encoding, she can't serve you, bestie. 💀 sad but true.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• ascii(7)
• charsets(7)
• utf-8(7)

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and that's the whole page, babe 🫶 this one's from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08. go forth and encode responsibly ✨💖🌈