MacArabic

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MacArabic is a Mac OS encoding. It encodes the Arabic script .

MacArabic is based on ISO 8859-6 , but is incompatible with it. Additional characters for Persian and Urdu are also encoded.

Many punctuation marks are coded twice. This is because at the time this character set was created, the Mac had only rudimentary bi-directional support, and each punctuation mark had to be encoded in a left-to-right and a right-to-left version.

The numerals in the ASCII range can be used both as European and Arabic-Indian digits.

The following table shows the MacArabic repertoire:

code … 0 …1 … 2 … 3 … 4 … 5 … 6 … 7 …8th … 9 … A … B ... C … D … E ... F
0 ... NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1… DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2… SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3… 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 : ; < = > ?
4… @ A. B. C. D. E. F. G H I. J K L. M. N O
5… P Q R. S. T U V W. X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6… ` a b c d e f G H i j k l m n O
7… p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8th… Ä ‮  Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â Ä ں « ç é è
9 ... ê ë í ... î ï ñ O » O ö ÷ ú ù û ü
A ... ! " # $ ٪ & ' ( ) * + ، - . /
B ... ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ : ؛ < = > ؟
C ... ء آ أ ؤ إ ئ ا ب ة ت ث ج ح خ د
D ... ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ [ \ ] ^ _
E ... ـ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ى ي ً ٌ ٍ َ ُ
F ... ِ ّ ْ پ ٹ چ ە ڤ گ ڈ ڑ { | } ژ ے

MacFarsi

MacFarsi is a Mac OS character encoding. It differs from MacArabic only in that the Persian digits replace the Arabic-Indian digits, otherwise it is identical to MacArabic.

The following table shows the MacFarsi repertoire:

code … 0 …1 … 2 … 3 … 4 … 5 … 6 … 7 …8th … 9 … A … B ... C … D … E ... F
0 ... NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1… DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2… SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3… 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 : ; < = > ?
4… @ A. B. C. D. E. F. G H I. J K L. M. N O
5… P Q R. S. T U V W. X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6… ` a b c d e f G H i j k l m n O
7… p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8th… Ä ‮  Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â Ä ں « ç é è
9 ... ê ë í ... î ï ñ O » O ö ÷ ú ù û ü
A ... ! " # $ ٪ & ' ( ) * + ، - . /
B ... ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹ : ؛ < = > ؟
C ... ء آ أ ؤ إ ئ ا ب ة ت ث ج ح خ د
D ... ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ [ \ ] ^ _
E ... ـ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ى ي ً ٌ ٍ َ ُ
F ... ِ ّ ْ پ ٹ چ ە ڤ گ ڈ ڑ { | } ژ ے

Individual evidence

  1. a b ftp.unicode.org
  2. ftp.unicode.org