From 14f09ddc2e2b20fa6cf384afeec25f1f81d9ab0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lefteris Dimitroulakis Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:57:06 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] iso_8859-6.7: New page describing ISO 8859-6 character set Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/iso_8859-6.7 | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man7/iso_8859-6.7 diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-6.7 b/man7/iso_8859-6.7 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..154b4a4bf --- /dev/null +++ b/man7/iso_8859-6.7 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2009 Lefteris Dimitroulakis (edimitro@tee.gr) +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.TH ISO_8859-6 7 2009-01-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +iso_8859-6 \- the ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal, +and hexadecimal +.SH 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. +.SS "ISO 8859 Alphabets" +The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: +.TS +l l. +ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1) +ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2) +ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) +ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) +ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic +ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic +ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek +ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew +ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) +ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) +ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai +ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) +ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8) +ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9) +ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10) +.TE +.SS "ISO 8859-6 Characters" +The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6, which +are printable and unlisted in the +.BR ascii (7) +manual page. +The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs +in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6. +.TS +l l l c lp-1. +Oct Dec Hex Char Description +_ +240 160 a0   NO-BREAK SPACE +244 164 a4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN +254 172 ac ¬ ARABIC COMMA +255 173 ad ­ SOFT HYPHEN +273 187 bb » ARABIC SEMICOLON +277 191 bf ¿ ARABIC QUESTION MARK +301 193 c1 Á ARABIC LETTER HAMZA +302 194 c2 Â ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE +303 195 c3 Ã ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE +304 196 c4 Ä ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE +305 197 c5 Å ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW +306 198 c6 Æ ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE +307 199 c7 Ç ARABIC LETTER ALEF +310 200 c8 È ARABIC LETTER BEH +311 201 c9 É ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA +312 202 ca Ê ARABIC LETTER TEH +313 203 cb Ë ARABIC LETTER THEH +314 204 cc Ì ARABIC LETTER JEEM +315 205 cd Í ARABIC LETTER HAH +316 206 ce Î ARABIC LETTER KHAH +317 207 cf Ï ARABIC LETTER DAL +320 208 d0 Ð ARABIC LETTER THAL +321 209 d1 Ñ ARABIC LETTER REH +322 210 d2 Ò ARABIC LETTER ZAIN +323 211 d3 Ó ARABIC LETTER SEEN +324 212 d4 Ô ARABIC LETTER SHEEN +325 213 d5 Õ ARABIC LETTER SAD +326 214 d6 Ö ARABIC LETTER DAD +327 215 d7 × ARABIC LETTER TAH +330 216 d8 Ø ARABIC LETTER ZAH +331 217 d9 Ù ARABIC LETTER AIN +332 218 da Ú ARABIC LETTER GHAIN +340 223 e0 à ARABIC TATWEEL +341 224 e1 á ARABIC LETTER FEH +342 225 e2 â ARABIC LETTER QAF +343 226 e3 ã ARABIC LETTER KAF +344 227 e4 ä ARABIC LETTER LAM +345 228 e5 å ARABIC LETTER MEEM +346 229 e6 æ ARABIC LETTER NOON +347 230 e7 ç ARABIC LETTER HEH +350 231 e8 è ARABIC LETTER WAW +351 232 e9 é ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA +352 233 ea ê ARABIC LETTER YEH +353 234 eb ë ARABIC FATHATAN +354 235 ec ì ARABIC DAMMATAN +355 236 ed í ARABIC KASRATAN +356 237 ee î ARABIC FATHA +357 238 ef ï ARABIC DAMMA +360 239 f0 ð ARABIC KASRA +361 240 f1 ñ ARABIC SHADDA +362 241 f2 ò ARABIC SUKUN +.TE +.SH NOTES +ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages, +such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR ascii (7)