Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange
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Indian government standard
Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange (PASCII) is one of the Indian government standards for encoding languages using writing systems based on Perso-Arabic alphabet, in particular Kashmiri, Persian, Sindhi and Urdu. The ISCII encoding was originally intended to cover both the Brahmi-derived writing systems of India and the Arabic-based systems, but it was subsequently decided to encode the Arabic-based writing systems separately.
PASCII has now been rendered largely obsolete by Unicode. The encoding of the Arabic script in Unicode is based on ISO/IEC 8859-6[1] rather than PASCII
Codepage layout
[edit]The following table shows the character set for PASCII. Each character is shown with its decimal code and its Unicode equivalent.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x | NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI |
| 1x | DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US |
| 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 | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 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 | { | | | } | ~ | DEL |
| 8x | a | b | b | bh | p | ph | t | @ | th | tt[a] | tth | th | j | |||
| 9x | dy | ny | ch | cch | H | kh | d | dh | dd[b] | D | ddh | dh | r | rr[c] | R | z |
| Ax | j | s | sh | S | D | T | Z | ` | G | f | q | k[d] | kh | g | G | N |
| Bx | l | m | n | N | N | w | W | h | h | ~ | y' | y | a | i | ||
| Cx | u | ' | ' | '[e] | W | [f] | ... | , | ||||||||
| Dx | [g] | [h] | % | , | . | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Ex | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ! | " | " | ' | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ATR |
| Fx | - | / | ; | : | ? | = | . | @ | *[h] | , | DM | LB | *[h] | * |
- ^ This character is displayed as T (Unicode point 067D) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is displayed as D (Unicode point 068A) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is displayed as R (Unicode point 0699) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is usually displayed as kh (Unicode point 06A9) in non-Sindhi texts. See also: Khe
- ^ This code space is used for Kashmiri hamza, an orthographic variation not used in Unicode. This diacritic on an alif is 0672 in Unicode.
- ^ This diacritic currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed] This diacritic on an alif is 0671 in Unicode.
- ^ This combining superscript letter kaf currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed]
- ^ a b c This punctuation mark currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed] Nearest equivalent shown.