lisp/language/hebrew.el

   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- Support for Hebrew
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
   4 ;; Licensed to the Free Software Foundation.
   5
   6 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
  10 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  11 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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  13 ;; any later version.
  14
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  19
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  22 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;; For Hebrew, the character sets ISO8859-8 is supported.
  28
  29 ;;; Code:
  30
  31 (make-coding-system
  32  'hebrew-iso-8bit 2 ?8
  33  "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)"
  34  '((ascii t) (hebrew-iso8859-8 t) nil nil
  35    nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t))
  36
  37 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  38
  39 (defun setup-hebrew-environment ()
  40   "Setup multilingual environment (MULE) for Hebrew.
  41 But, please note that right-to-left writing is not yet supported."
  42   (interactive)
  43   (setup-8-bit-environment "Hebrew" 'hebrew-iso8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit
  44                            "hebrew"))
  45
  46 (set-language-info-alist
  47  "Hebrew" '((setup-function . setup-hebrew-environment)
  48             (describe-function . describe-hebrew-support)
  49             (charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
  50             (coding-system . (hebrew-iso-8bit))
  51             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  52             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")
  53             ))
  54
  55 ;;; hebrew.el ends here