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