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.

Codepage layout

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
0_	NUL 0000 0	SOH 0001 1	STX 0002 2	ETX 0003 3	EOT 0004 4	ENQ 0005 5	ACK 0006 6	BEL 0007 7	BS 0008 8	HT 0009 9	LF 000A 10	VT 000B 11	FF 000C 12	CR 000D 13	SO 000E 14	SI 000F 15
1_	DLE 0010 16	DC1 0011 17	DC2 0012 18	DC3 0013 19	DC4 0014 20	NAK 0015 21	SYN 0016 22	ETB 0017 23	CAN 0018 24	EM 0019 25	SUB 001A 26	ESC 001B 27	FS 001C 28	GS 001D 29	RS 001E 30	US 001F 31
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126	DEL 007F 127
8_		ـ 0640 129	ا 0627 130	آ 0622 131	ب 0628 132	ٻ 067B 133	ڀ 0680 134	پ 067E 135	ڦ 06A6 136	ت 062A 137	ة 0629 138	ٿ 067F 139	ٹ 0679[1] 140	ٺ 067A 141	ث 062B 142	ج 062C 143
9_	ڄ 0684 144	ڃ 0683 145	چ 0686 146	ڇ 0687 147	ح 062D 148	خ 062E 149	د 062F 150	ڌ 068C 151	ڈ 0688[2] 152	ڏ 068F 153	ڍ 068D 154	ذ 0630 155	ر 0631 156	ڑ 0691[3] 157	ڙﻬ 0699-FEEC 158	ز 0632 159
A_	ژ 0698 160	س 0633 161	ش 0634 162	ص 0635 163	ض 0636 164	ط 0637 165	ظ 0638 166	ع 0639 167	غ 063A 168	ف 0641 169	ق 0642 170	ڪ 06AA[4] 171	ک 06A9 172	گ 06AF 173	ڳ 06B3 174	ڱ 06B1 175
B_	ل 0644 176	م 0645 177	ن 0646 178	ں 06BA 179	ڻ 06BB 180	و 0648 181	ۄ 06C4 182	ه 0647 183	ھ 06BE 184	ء 0621 185	ى 0649 186	ؠ 0620 187	ۓ 06D3 188	ے 06D2 189	َ 064E 190	ِ 0650 191
C_	ُ 064F 192	ٗ 0657 193	ٔ 0654 194	ٕ 0655 195	ٔ 0654[5] 196	ٟ 065F 197	ّ 0651 198	ٓ 0653 199	ۡ 06E1 200	ٰ 0670 201	ٖ 0656 202	- [6] 203	- [7] 204	- [7] 205	، 060C 206	ؐ 0610 207
D_	ؓ 0613 208	ؒ 0612 209	ؑ 0611 210	- [8] 211	- [8] 212	ۙ 06D9 213	ۚ 06DA 214	ۢ 06E2 215	- [7] 216	٪ 066A 217	٬ 066C 218	٫ 066B 219	۰ 06F0 220	۱ 06F1 221	۲ 06F2 222	۳ 06F3 223
E_	۴ 06F4 224	۵ 06F5 225	۶ 06F6 226	۷ 06F7 227	۸ 06F8 228	۹ 06F9 229	! 0021 230	“ 201C 231	” 201D 232	‘ 2018 233	’ 2019 234	( 0028 235	) 0029 236	٭ 066D 235	+ 002B 236	ATR 239
F_	- 002D 240	/ 002F 241	؛ 061B 242	: 003A 243	؟ 061F 244	= 003D 245	۔ 06D4 246	۝ 06DD 247	- [7] 248	٬ 066C 249

Notes:

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.
6. This diacritic currently has no Unicode support.
7. This punctuation mark currently has no Unicode support.
8. This superscript letter currently has no Unicode support.

References

• PASCII at Center for Development of Advanced Computing