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
editThe 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 | 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] | · |
- ^ This character is displayed as ٽ (Unicode point 067D) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is displayed as ڊ (Unicode point 068A) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is displayed as ڙ (Unicode point 0699) for Sindhi texts.
- ^ This character is usually displayed as ک (Unicode point 06A9) in non-Sindhi texts. See also: Khē
- ^ 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.