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Character sets:

 ISO 8859-1, Latin-1, & general info
 ISO 8859-2, Latin Slavic and Central European
 ISO 8859-3
 ISO 8859-4
 ISO 8859-5, Cyrillic
 ISO 8859-6, Arabic
 ISO 8859-7, Greek
 ISO 8859-8, Hebrew
 ISO 8859-9
 ISO 8859-10, Nordic

The finest example that I have seen of an Arabic website is the vice-president of Iran's blog! It's an attractive site, and he's a nice writer. The site is in English, Farsi, and Arabic. It is encoded in UTF-8, or 8-bit Unicode (as opposed to UTF-16, 16 bit unicode). You should probably consider using UTF-8 if you are making an Arabic language site, rather than extended ASCII.

Character sets and Language encoding

In order to write web pages in languages using characters not found in the standard ASCII 7-bit, you need to specify the character set. If the page has been made correctly, the reader still may not be able to read the page if they don't have a corresponding font installed.

ISO 8859-6, Arabic

Covers Arabic languages and Farsi:

The upper 128 characters are defined differently in different languages. The ISO has developed the following standard sets and are in wide use. There are other character sets, such as KOi8 and JCK.

128-143 unused control characters
144-159 unused control characters
160-175 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª Ç ¬ ­ ® ¯
176-191 ° ± ² ³ ´ µ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
192-207 À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
208-223 Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
224-239 à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
240-255 ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
This table to the right is an image. The characters in the table above should look like these. (But not necessarily in the same order.)