Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange (PASCII) is one of the

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

n government standards for encoding languages using writing systems based on Perso-Arabic alphabet, in particular Kashmiri, Persian, Sindhi and

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. The

ISCII Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. It encodes the main Indic scripts and a Roman transliteration. The supported scripts are: Eastern Nagari, Bengali–Ass ...

encoding was originally intended to cover both the

Brahmi Brahmi ( ; ; ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system from ancient India. "Until the late nineteenth century, the script of the Aśokan (non-Kharosthi) inscriptions and its immediate derivatives was referred to by various names such as 'lath' or ...

-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

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. The encoding of the Arabic script in Unicode is based on ISO/IEC 8859-6 rather than PASCII

Codepage layout

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

equivalent. , , , , , , , , , , , , - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

References

PASCII at Center for Development of Advanced Computing
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