iso_8859-8 (7)

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NAME

iso_8859-8 - 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
240	160	A0		NO-BREAK SPACE
242	162	A2	¢	CENT SIGN
243	163	A3	£	POUND SIGN
244	164	A4	¤	CURRENCY SIGN
245	165	A5	¥	YEN SIGN
246	166	A6	¦	BROKEN BAR
247	167	A7	§	SECTION SIGN
250	168	A8	¨	DIAERESIS
251	169	A9	©	COPYRIGHT SIGN
252	170	AA	ª	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	°	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	µ	MICRO SIGN
266	182	B6	¶	PILCROW SIGN
267	183	B7	·	MIDDLE DOT
270	184	B8	¸	CEDILLA
271	185	B9	¹	SUPERSCRIPT ONE
272	186	BA	º	DIVISION SIGN
273	187	BB	»	RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274	188	BC	¼	VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275	189	BD	½	VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276	190	BE	¾	VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337	223	DF	ß	DOUBLE LOW LINE
340	224	E0	à	HEBREW LETTER ALEF
341	225	E1	á	HEBREW LETTER BET
342	226	E2	â	HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343	227	E3	ã	HEBREW LETTER DALET
344	228	E4	ä	HEBREW LETTER HE
345	229	E5	å	HEBREW LETTER VAV
346	230	E6	æ	HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347	231	E7	ç	HEBREW LETTER HET
350	232	E8	è	HEBREW LETTER TET
351	233	E9	é	HEBREW LETTER YOD
352	234	EA	ê	HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353	235	EB	ë	HEBREW LETTER KAF
354	236	EC	ì	HEBREW LETTER LAMED
355	237	ED	í	HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356	238	EE	î	HEBREW LETTER MEM
357	239	EF	ï	HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360	240	F0	ð	HEBREW LETTER NUN
361	241	F1	ñ	HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362	242	F2	ò	HEBREW LETTER AYIN
363	243	F3	ó	HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364	244	F4	ô	HEBREW LETTER PE
365	245	F5	õ	HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366	246	F6	ö	HEBREW LETTER TSADI
367	247	F7	÷	HEBREW LETTER QOF
370	248	F8	ø	HEBREW LETTER RESH
371	249	F9	ù	HEBREW LETTER SHIN
372	250	FA	ú	HEBREW LETTER TAV
375	253	FD	ý	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376	254	FE	þ	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

NOTES

ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.

SEE ALSO

ascii(7)

COLOPHON

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