High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Arabic. It was designed to cover languages using the Arabic alphabet (though it does not include the extra letters needed to write most Arabic-script languages other than Arabic itself, such as Persian, Urdu, etc). Only nominal letters are encoded, no preshaped forms of the letters, so shaping processing is required for display. It was never very popular. In recent times it is giving way to Unicode.