ISO/IEC 8859-6

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
ASMO 708 was devised by the now defunct <a href="/facts/Arab_Standardization_and_Metrology_Organization/0em2n69Q">Arab Standardization and Metrology Organization</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> in 1986 to be the 8-bit standard to be used in Arabic-speaking countries. The design of this character set was inspired by the previous 7-bit standard — <a href="/facts/ASMO_449/TSpkCezI">ASMO 449</a> — but it is not simply the 7-bit character set moved to the upper part; there are some differences.
ASMO 708 is a bidirectional character set. The lower part of the character set differs from standard <a href="/facts/ISO_646/7CdXUnTs">ISO 646</a> in the digits and in some punctuation. Depending on the context (whether the numbers are within Latin script or Arabic script), the digits are rendered either as Latin digits or Arabic digits. Also, depending on the context, symmetrical punctuation marks are reversed, i.e., whenever there is an opening punctuation mark, the shape is rendered differently according to the direction of the script.
The upper part of the character set has only the Arabic letters, Arabic punctuation that is different from Latin punctuation, plus few other characters.
ASMO 708 was designed in close cooperation<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> with <a href="/facts/Ecma_International/HCbnIU6n">ECMA</a>, which adopted it as its own <a href="/facts/ECMA-114/Hvk7KxTc">ECMA-114</a> standard in 1986. It was also approved as an <a href="/facts/List_of_International_Organization_for_Standardization_standards/37cvEvLc">ISO standard</a> as ISO 8859-6.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> It was also registered in the <a href="/facts/International_Register_of_Coded_Character_Sets/3vbwU2Bx">International Register of Coded Character Sets</a> as IR 127<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> in 1986.

<h2 id="relationship-with-other-character-sets">Relationship with other character sets</h2>
Some other character sets are related to ASMO 708:

<ul><li>ASMO 708/French 1<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> adds French lower case characters;</li>
<li>French 1/ASMO 708<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> adds French lower case characters in their ISO 8859-1 code points and dislocates the Arabic ones;</li>
<li>ISO/IR 167<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a> adds French and German characters;</li>
<li>Microsoft's code page 708, for MS-DOS, adds French characters in their typical code points from code page 437 and adds box-drawing characters;</li>
<li>Both Microsoft's code page 710 (Transparent Arabic) and Microsoft's code page 720 (Transparent ASMO), for MS-DOS, add French characters in their typical code points from code page 437 but dislocates the Arabic characters to allow the box-drawing characters from code page 437 to be in their original code points;</li>
<li>Microsoft's <a href="/facts/Windows_1256/5W8bKwCN">Windows 1256</a> adds French lower case characters in their <a href="/facts/Windows_1252/eyM337y0">Windows 1252</a> code points and dislocates the Arabic ones;</li></ul>
<h2 id="code-chart">Code chart</h2>
ISO/IEC 8859-6<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>0x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2x</td><td> <a href="/facts/Space_character/Q5xRIaSz">SP</a> </td><td><a href="/facts/Exclamation_mark/joGCCBau">!</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Quotation_mark/hIdA4WEo">"</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Number_sign/bHYCsWs1">#</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Dollar_sign/4CroUuPn">$</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Percent_sign/pLdHNKar">%</a>/<a href="/facts/%D9%AA/pLdHNKar">٪</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ampersand/emmXUXuB">&</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Apostrophe/Te0sg9km">'</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Parenthesis/yzGM9J8A">(</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Parenthesis/yzGM9J8A">)</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Asterisk/qwmtPW5V">*</a>/<a href="/facts/%D9%AD/FLcnJ7sC">٭</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Plus_sign/6RJD4Xt9">+</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Comma_(punctuation)/mcW9dcGT">,</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hyphen-minus/TnWuz7hd">-</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Full_stop/w0Ylafwn">.</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Slash_(punctuation)/fuaRyKzc">/</a></td></tr><tr><td>3x</td><td><a href="/facts/0_(number)/4NBRtKHc">0/٠</a></td><td><a href="/facts/1_(number)/m3wpSfMf">1/١</a></td><td><a href="/facts/2_(number)/u5WC44t9">2/٢</a></td><td><a href="/facts/3_(number)/6QzW9RkE">3/٣</a></td><td><a href="/facts/4_(number)/zwN4alXI">4/٤</a></td><td><a href="/facts/5_(number)/gshjM6ID">5/٥</a></td><td><a href="/facts/6_(number)/MsEd6F54">6/٦</a></td><td><a href="/facts/7_(number)/4GV2hz09">7/٧</a></td><td><a href="/facts/8_(number)/TljQxSx9">8/٨</a></td><td><a href="/facts/9_(number)/q5jvU1Dv">9/٩</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Colon_(punctuation)/se9fjJa4">:</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Semicolon/VY8VsSPC">;</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Less-than_sign/cho3wlR5"><</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Equals_sign/AweYSg9h">=</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Greater-than_sign/J58SE7bT">></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Question_mark/0D8z1rxr">?</a></td></tr><tr><td>4x</td><td><a href="/facts/@/6Q03Vo2z">@</a></td><td><a href="/facts/A/2R3BU1nc">A</a></td><td><a href="/facts/B/Bf1NUwpT">B</a></td><td><a href="/facts/C/2e7jmUaG">C</a></td><td><a href="/facts/D/A6hNvmCp">D</a></td><td><a href="/facts/E/0G2cAFzu">E</a></td><td><a href="/facts/F/2Qhv29hR">F</a></td><td><a href="/facts/G/0wjXcPDT">G</a></td><td><a href="/facts/H/2ReerlNA">H</a></td><td><a href="/facts/I/2w7mqI7e">I</a></td><td><a href="/facts/J/I3pUoxSq">J</a></td><td><a href="/facts/K/68UJI9sK">K</a></td><td><a href="/facts/L/0Ge4MIc9">L</a></td><td><a href="/facts/M/24C1RjmQ">M</a></td><td><a href="/facts/N/0CEs8314">N</a></td><td><a href="/facts/O/41AF4mKp">O</a></td></tr><tr><td>5x</td><td><a href="/facts/P/41AF4mKp">P</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Q/3x6B7oLx">Q</a></td><td><a href="/facts/R/2w7mqI7e">R</a></td><td><a href="/facts/S/1DcekgEL">S</a></td><td><a href="/facts/T/1GaDe2Vy">T</a></td><td><a href="/facts/U/41AF4mKp">U</a></td><td><a href="/facts/V/41AF4mKp">V</a></td><td><a href="/facts/W/1qRkvAb9">W</a></td><td><a href="/facts/X/1qRkvAb9">X</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Y/anP6EhKq">Y</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Z/Bf1NUwpT">Z</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Square_brackets/yzGM9J8A">[</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Backslash/SoV79KPp">\</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Square_brackets/yzGM9J8A">]</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Caret/LRV5MF7s">^</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Underscore/KJsRo3tA">_</a></td></tr><tr><td>6x</td><td><a href="/facts/%60/pVo48UeD">`</a></td><td><a href="/facts/A/2R3BU1nc">a</a></td><td><a href="/facts/B/Bf1NUwpT">b</a></td><td><a href="/facts/C/2e7jmUaG">c</a></td><td><a href="/facts/D/A6hNvmCp">d</a></td><td><a href="/facts/E/0G2cAFzu">e</a></td><td><a href="/facts/F/2Qhv29hR">f</a></td><td><a href="/facts/G/0wjXcPDT">g</a></td><td><a href="/facts/H/2ReerlNA">h</a></td><td><a href="/facts/I/2w7mqI7e">i</a></td><td><a href="/facts/J/I3pUoxSq">j</a></td><td><a href="/facts/K/68UJI9sK">k</a></td><td><a href="/facts/L/0Ge4MIc9">l</a></td><td><a href="/facts/M/24C1RjmQ">m</a></td><td><a href="/facts/N/0CEs8314">n</a></td><td><a href="/facts/O/41AF4mKp">o</a></td></tr><tr><td>7x</td><td><a href="/facts/P/41AF4mKp">p</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Q/3x6B7oLx">q</a></td><td><a href="/facts/R/2w7mqI7e">r</a></td><td><a href="/facts/S/1DcekgEL">s</a></td><td><a href="/facts/T/1GaDe2Vy">t</a></td><td><a href="/facts/U/41AF4mKp">u</a></td><td><a href="/facts/V/41AF4mKp">v</a></td><td><a href="/facts/W/1qRkvAb9">w</a></td><td><a href="/facts/X/1qRkvAb9">x</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Y/anP6EhKq">y</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Z/Bf1NUwpT">z</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Curly_brackets/yzGM9J8A">{</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Vertical_bar/Yq77nJ6f">|</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Curly_brackets/yzGM9J8A">}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tilde/wQTx6ytR">~</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>9x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ax</td><td><a href="/facts/Non-breaking_space/lBPo5IS6">NBSP</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Currency_(typography)/TVd6UAcl">¤</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Comma/mcW9dcGT">،</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Soft_hyphen/NtwVakne">SHY</a></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bx</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Semicolon/VY8VsSPC">؛</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Question_mark/0D8z1rxr">؟</a></td></tr><tr><td>Cx</td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A1/WdDC2JU7">ء</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A2/7TAagmkr">آ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A3/WdDC2JU7">أ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A4/WdDC2JU7">ؤ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A5/WdDC2JU7">إ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A6/WdDC2JU7">ئ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A7/fFWqQp9C">ا</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A8/Srgaea2b">ب</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%A9/xPAIoNzc">ة</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AA/xPAIoNzc">ت</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AB/mbzqfT5A">ث</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AC/X9bUMl2A">ج</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AD/HT1Vkutu">ح</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AE/gWEnss9l">خ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%AF/0twlfWSk">د</a></td></tr><tr><td>Dx</td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B0/dSRkUftQ">ذ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B1/PRjqY1m1">ر</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B2/zyRrAtL3">ز</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B3/D8AeI5cw">س</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B4/D8AeI5cw">ش</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B5/cN3xQlt6">ص</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B6/gMKQ4VUj">ض</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B7/l9eCffx5">ط</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B8/tJnC7lsL">ظ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%B9/PH5yVCtl">ع</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D8%BA/D3Vl9MGT">غ</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ex</td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%80/025fgtUV">ـ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%81/QDVgytTJ">ف</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%82/qKXUPmUR">ق</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%83/hDIlq2Ml">ك</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%84/17U3cu1e">ل</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%85/ykDtAr5g">م</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%86/3mQbmbHv">ن</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%87/xX9tL4gb">ه</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%88/TKp2ez3q">و</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%89/hCA1a0xq">ى</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%D9%8A/mvVQfBTm">ي</a></td><td>◌ً</td><td>◌ٌ</td><td>◌ٍ</td><td>◌َ</td><td>◌ُ</td></tr><tr><td>Fx</td><td>◌ِ</td><td>◌ّ</td><td>◌ْ</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
Code values 0xEB–0xF2 are assigned to <a href="/facts/Combining_character/nH8SFbIL">combining characters</a>.

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/ASMO_449/TSpkCezI">ASMO 449</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/ISO_8859/KFAUkAQ9">ISO 8859</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Windows-1256/5W8bKwCN">Windows-1256</a> (Windows Arabic codepage)</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28250&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3=">ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-114">Standard ECMA-114</a>: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Arabic Alphabet 2nd edition (December 2000)</li>
<li><a href="https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/127.pdf">ISO-IR 127</a> Right-Hand Part of Latin/Arabic Alphabet (November 30, 1986)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1">"Code page 1089 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160317053319/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01089.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160317053319/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01089.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">"CCSID 1089 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160327025730/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1089.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160327025730/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1089.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">"The Unicode Standard v15.0 Chapter 9" (PDF). <a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch09.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch09.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Computing and the Qurʾān - Some caveats, 2007, Thomas Milo <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Usage Statistics of ISO-8859-6 for Websites, October 2022". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2022-10-25. <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885906/all/all" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885906/all/all</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"Frequently Asked Questions". <a href="https://w3techs.com/faq" target="_blank">https://w3techs.com/faq</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Le codage informatique de l'écriture arabe : d'ASMO 449 à Unicode et ISO/CEI 10646 <a href="http://dn.revuesonline.com/gratuit/DN6_3-4_06_Zghibi.pdf" target="_blank">http://dn.revuesonline.com/gratuit/DN6_3-4_06_Zghibi.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Standard ECMA-114 <a href="https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-114.htm" target="_blank">https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-114.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">"ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2024-09-21. <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/28250.html" target="_blank">https://www.iso.org/standard/28250.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">European Computer Manufacturers Association, Arabic Organization for Standardization and Metrology (1986-11-30). Right-Hand Part of Latin/Arabic Alphabet (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ. ISO-IR-127. <a href="/wiki/Ecma_International" target="_blank">/wiki/Ecma_International</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">Printronix ACA Emulation Programmer's Reference Manual <a href="http://printronix.com/emea/wp-content/uploads/manuals/PTX_PRM_ACA_P8_258187a.pdf" target="_blank">http://printronix.com/emea/wp-content/uploads/manuals/PTX_PRM_ACA_P8_258187a.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Printronix ACA Emulation Programmer's Reference Manual <a href="http://printronix.com/emea/wp-content/uploads/manuals/PTX_PRM_ACA_P8_258187a.pdf" target="_blank">http://printronix.com/emea/wp-content/uploads/manuals/PTX_PRM_ACA_P8_258187a.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">European Computer Manufacturers Association (1992-07-12). Arabic/French/German Set (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ. ISO-IR-167. <a href="https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/167.pdf" target="_blank">https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/167.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">"ISO 8859-6:1999 to Unicode". 1999-07-27. <a href="https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-6.TXT" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-6.TXT</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">Code Page CPGID 01089 (pdf) (PDF), IBM <a href="https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01089.pdf" target="_blank">https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01089.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Code Page CPGID 01089 (txt), IBM <a href="https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01089.txt" target="_blank">https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01089.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1089_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03 <a href="https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-1089_P100-1995.ucm" target="_blank">https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-1089_P100-1995.ucm</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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