| ISO_8859-8(7) |
Linux Programmer's Manual |
ISO_8859-8(7) |
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.
NOTES
ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.
SEE ALSO
ascii(7)
COLOPHON
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