Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange explained

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

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

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Unicode Standard v15.0 Chapter 9 .