ISO_8859-8(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-8(7)
NAME
iso_8859-8 - the ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-8, or "ISO
Hebrew" encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew (or Ivrit). Neither short vowels nor diacritical marks are included, and Yiddish is
not provided for.
ISO 8859 Alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
ISO 8859-8 Characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-8, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column
will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-8.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
242 162 A2 c CENT SIGN
243 163 A3 L POUND SIGN
244 164 A4 x CURRENCY SIGN
245 165 A5 Y YEN SIGN
246 166 A6 | BROKEN BAR
247 167 A7 S SECTION SIGN
250 168 A8 " DIAERESIS
251 169 A9 (C) COPYRIGHT SIGN
252 170 AA x MULTIPLICATION SIGN
253 171 AB << LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254 172 AC ~ NOT SIGN
255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
256 174 AE (_) REGISTERED SIGN
257 175 AF MACRON
260 176 B0 o DEGREE SIGN
261 177 B1 +- PLUS-MINUS SIGN
262 178 B2 2 SUPERSCRIPT TWO
263 179 B3 3 SUPERSCRIPT THREE
264 180 B4 ' ACUTE ACCENT
265 181 B5 u MICRO SIGN
266 182 B6 9| PILCROW SIGN
267 183 B7 . MIDDLE DOT
270 184 B8 , CEDILLA
271 185 B9 1 SUPERSCRIPT ONE
272 186 BA -:- DIVISION SIGN
273 187 BB >> RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274 188 BC 1/4 VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275 189 BD 1/2 VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276 190 BE 3/4 VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337 222 DF DOUBLE LOW LINE
340 223 E0 HEBREW LETTER ALEF
341 224 E1 HEBREW LETTER BET
342 225 E2 HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343 226 E3 HEBREW LETTER DALET
344 227 E4 HEBREW LETTER HE
345 228 E5 HEBREW LETTER VAV
346 229 E6 HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347 230 E7 HEBREW LETTER HET
350 231 E8 HEBREW LETTER TET
351 232 E9 HEBREW LETTER YOD
352 233 EA HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353 234 EB HEBREW LETTER KAF
354 235 EC HEBREW LETTER LAMED
355 236 ED HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356 237 EE HEBREW LETTER MEM
357 238 EF HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360 239 F0 HEBREW LETTER NUN
361 240 F1 HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362 241 F2 HEBREW LETTER AYIN
363 242 F3 HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364 243 F4 HEBREW LETTER PE
365 244 F5 HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366 245 F6 HEBREW LETTER TSADI
367 246 F7 HEBREW LETTER QOF
370 247 F8 HEBREW LETTER RESH
371 248 F9 HEBREW LETTER SHIN
372 249 FA HEBREW LETTER TAV
375 252 FD LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376 253 FE RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
NOTES
ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.
SEE ALSO
ascii(7)
COLOPHON
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Linux 2009-01-15 ISO_8859-8(7)