Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange
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 not been widely used outside certain government institutions and has now been rendered largely obsolete by Unicode. Unicode uses a separate block for each writing system and largely preserves the PASCII layout within each block.
Codepage layout
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 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0_ 0 |
NUL 0000 |
SOH 0001 |
STX 0002 |
ETX 0003 |
EOT 0004 |
ENQ 0005 |
ACK 0006 |
BEL 0007 |
BS 0008 |
HT 0009 |
LF 000A |
VT 000B |
FF 000C |
CR 000D |
SO 000E |
SI 000F |
1_ 16 |
DLE 0010 |
DC1 0011 |
DC2 0012 |
DC3 0013 |
DC4 0014 |
NAK 0015 |
SYN 0016 |
ETB 0017 |
CAN 0018 |
EM 0019 |
SUB 001A |
ESC 001B |
FS 001C |
GS 001D |
RS 001E |
US 001F |
2_ 32 |
SP 0020 |
! 0021 |
" 0022 |
# 0023 |
$ 0024 |
% 0025 |
& 0026 |
' 0027 |
( 0028 |
) 0029 |
* 002A |
+ 002B |
, 002C |
- 002D |
. 002E |
/ 002F |
3_ 48 |
0 0030 |
1 0031 |
2 0032 |
3 0033 |
4 0034 |
5 0035 |
6 0036 |
7 0037 |
8 0038 |
9 0039 |
: 003A |
; 003B |
< 003C |
= 003D |
> 003E |
? 003F |
4_ 64 |
@ 0040 |
A 0041 |
B 0042 |
C 0043 |
D 0044 |
E 0045 |
F 0046 |
G 0047 |
H 0048 |
I 0049 |
J 004A |
K 004B |
L 004C |
M 004D |
N 004E |
O 004F |
5_ 80 |
P 0050 |
Q 0051 |
R 0052 |
S 0053 |
T 0054 |
U 0055 |
V 0056 |
W 0057 |
X 0058 |
Y 0059 |
Z 005A |
[ 005B |
\ 005C |
] 005D |
^ 005E |
_ 005F |
6_ 96 |
` 0060 |
a 0061 |
b 0062 |
c 0063 |
d 0064 |
e 0065 |
f 0066 |
g 0067 |
h 0068 |
i 0069 |
j 006A |
k 006B |
l 006C |
m 006D |
n 006E |
o 006F |
7_ 112 |
p 0070 |
q 0071 |
r 0072 |
s 0073 |
t 0074 |
u 0075 |
v 0076 |
w 0077 |
x 0078 |
y 0079 |
z 007A |
{ 007B |
| 007C |
} 007D |
~ 007E |
DEL 007F |
8_ 128 |
ـ 0640 |
ا 0627 |
آ 0622 |
ب 0628 |
ٻ 067B |
ڀ 0680 |
پ 067E |
ڦ 06A6 |
ت 062A |
ة 0629 |
ٿ 067F |
ٹ[lower-alpha 1] 0679 |
ٺ 067A |
ث 062B |
ج 062C | |
9_ 144 |
ڄ 0684 |
ڃ 0683 |
چ 0686 |
ڇ 0687 |
ح 062D |
خ 062E |
د 062F |
ڌ 068C |
ڈ[lower-alpha 2] 0688 |
ڏ 068F |
ڍ 068D |
ذ 0630 |
ر 0631 |
ڑ[lower-alpha 3] 0691 |
ڙﻬ 0699/FEEC |
ز 0632 |
A_ 160 |
ژ 0698 |
س 0633 |
ش 0634 |
ص 0635 |
ض 0636 |
ط 0637 |
ظ 0638 |
ع 0639 |
غ 063A |
ف 0641 |
ق 0642 |
ڪ[lower-alpha 4] 06AA |
ک 06A9 |
گ 06AF |
ڳ 06B3 |
ڱ 06B1 |
B_ 176 |
ل 0644 |
م 0645 |
ن 0646 |
ں 06BA |
ڻ 06BB |
و 0648 |
ۄ 06C4 |
ه 0647 |
ھ 06BE |
ء 0621 |
ى 0649 |
ؠ 0620 |
ۓ 06D3 |
ے 06D2 |
َ 064E |
ِ 0650 |
C_ 192 |
ُ 064F |
ٗ 0657 |
ٔ 0654 |
ٕ 0655 |
ٔ[lower-alpha 5] 0654 |
ٟ 065F |
ّ 0651 |
ٓ 0653 |
ۡ 06E1 |
ٰ 0670 |
ٖ 0656 |
[lower-alpha 6] |
[lower-alpha 7] |
[lower-alpha 7] |
، 060C |
ؐ 0610 |
D_ 208 |
ؓ 0613 |
ؒ 0612 |
ؑ 0611 |
[lower-alpha 8] |
[lower-alpha 8] |
ۙ 06D9 |
ۚ 06DA |
ۢ 06E2 |
[lower-alpha 7] |
٪ 066A |
٬ 066C |
٫ 066B |
۰ 06F0 |
۱ 06F1 |
۲ 06F2 |
۳ 06F3 |
E_ 224 |
۴ 06F4 |
۵ 06F5 |
۶ 06F6 |
۷ 06F7 |
۸ 06F8 |
۹ 06F9 |
! 0021 |
“ 201C |
” 201D |
‘ 2018 |
’ 2019 |
( 0028 |
) 0029 |
٭ 066D |
+ 002B |
ATR |
F_ 240 |
- 002D |
/ 002F |
؛ 061B |
: 003A |
؟ 061F |
= 003D |
۔ 06D4 |
06DD |
[lower-alpha 7] |
٬ 066C |
DM |
LB |
[lower-alpha 7] |
· 00B7 |
Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined
- 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 currently has no Unicode support.
- This punctuation mark currently has no Unicode support.
- This superscript letter currently has no Unicode support.