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 encodes the
characters used in Modern Hebrew.
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 that are
printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.
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 <section> 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 <degree> 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 <micro> MICRO SIGN
266 182 B6 <paragraph> 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
337 223 DF DOUBLE LOW LINE
340 224 E0 HEBREW LETTER ALEF
341 225 E1 HEBREW LETTER BET
342 226 E2 HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343 227 E3 HEBREW LETTER DALET
344 228 E4 HEBREW LETTER HE
345 229 E5 HEBREW LETTER VAV
346 230 E6 HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347 231 E7 HEBREW LETTER HET
350 232 E8 HEBREW LETTER TET
351 233 E9 HEBREW LETTER YOD
352 234 EA HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353 235 EB HEBREW LETTER KAF
354 236 EC HEBREW LETTER LAMED
355 237 ED HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356 238 EE HEBREW LETTER MEM
357 239 EF HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360 240 F0 HEBREW LETTER NUN
361 241 F1 HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362 242 F2 HEBREW LETTER AYIN
363 243 F3 HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364 244 F4 HEBREW LETTER PE
365 245 F5 HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366 246 F6 HEBREW LETTER TSADI
367 247 F7 HEBREW LETTER QOF
370 248 F8 HEBREW LETTER RESH
371 249 F9 HEBREW LETTER SHIN
372 250 FA HEBREW LETTER TAV
375 253 FD LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376 254 FE RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
NOTES
ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138. ISO 8859-8 includes neither
short vowels nor diacritical marks, and Yiddish is not provided for.
SEE ALSO
ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)
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Linux 2014-10-02 ISO_8859-8(7)