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Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange

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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

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The following table shows the character set for PASCII. Each character is shown with its decimal code and its Unicode equivalent.

PASCII
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x NULSOHSTXETXEOTENQACKBEL  BS   HT   LF   VT   FF   CR   SO   SI  
1x DLEDC1DC2DC3DC4NAKSYNETBCAN  EM  SUBESC  FS   GS   RS   US 
2x  SP  !"#$%&'()*+,-./
3x 0123456789:;<=>?
4x @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
5x PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
6x `abcdefghijklmno
7x pqrstuvwxyz{|}~DEL
8x ـ ا آ ب ٻ ڀ پ ڦ ت ة ٿ ٹ[a]ٺ ث ج
9x ڄ ڃ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڈ[b]ڏ ڍ ذ ر ڑ[c]ڙﻬ ز
Ax ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ڪ[d]ک گ ڳ ڱ
Bx ل م ن ں ڻ و ۄ ه ھ ء ى ؠ ۓ ے َ ِ
Cx ُ ٗ ٔ ٕ ٔ[e]ٟ ّ ٓ ۡ ٰ ٖ [f]… ؔ ، ؐ
Dx ؓ ؒ ؑ ࣗ [g]ۙ ۚ ۢ ؁[h]٪ ٬ ٫ ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳
Ex ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹ ! “ ” ‘ ’ ( ) ٭ + ATR
Fx - / ؛ : ؟ = ۔ ۝ ●[h]٬  DM  LB ◌[h]·
  1. ^This character is displayed as ٽ (Unicode point 067D) for Sindhi texts.
  2. ^This character is displayed as ڊ (Unicode point 068A) for Sindhi texts.
  3. ^This character is displayed as ڙ (Unicode point 0699) for Sindhi texts.
  4. ^This character is usually displayed as ک (Unicode point 06A9) in non-Sindhi texts. See also: Khē
  5. ^This code space is used for Kashmiri hamza, an orthographic variation not used in Unicode. This diacritic on an alif is 0672 in Unicode.
  6. ^This diacritic currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed] This diacritic on an alif is 0671 in Unicode.
  7. ^This combining superscript letter kaf currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed]
  8. ^ abcThis punctuation mark currently has no Unicode support.[citation needed] Nearest equivalent shown.

References

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  1. ^"The Unicode Standard v15.0 Chapter 9"(PDF).
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