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ISO 8859-6

ISO 8859-6, also known as Arabic, is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover languages using the Arabic alphabet, but lacks many needed glyphs and therefore was never too popular. In recent times it is giving way to Unicode.

ISO/IEC 8859-6
	x0	x1	x2	x3	x4	x5	x6	x7	x8	x9	xA	xB	xC	xD	xE	xF
0x	unused
1x
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	&#93	^	_
6x	`	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o
7x	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	{	|	}	~
8x	unused
9x
Ax	NBSP				¤								،	­
Bx												؛				؟
Cx		ء	آ	أ	ؤ	إ	ئ	ا	ب	ة	ت	ث	ج	ح	خ	د
Dx	ذ	ر	ز	س	ش	ص	ض	ط	ظ	ع	غ
Ex	ـ	ف	ق	ك	ل	م	ن	ه	و	ى	ي	ً	ٌ	ٍ	َ	ُ
Fx	ِ	ّ	ْ

In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

Code values 00-1F, 7F, 80-9F, A1-A3, A5-AB, B0-BA, BC-BE, C0, DC-DF, and F3-FF are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-6.

Code values EB-F2 are assigned to combining characters.