lisp/language/hebrew.el

   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- support for Hebrew -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; no-byte-compile: t -*-
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
   4 ;;   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5 ;; Copyright (C) 1995
   6 ;;   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
   7 ;;   Registration Number H14PRO021
   8
   9 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
  10
  11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  12
  13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  15 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  16 ;; any later version.
  17
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  22
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  26 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  27
  28 ;;; Commentary:
  29
  30 ;; For Hebrew, the character set ISO8859-8 is supported.
  31 ;; See http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-121.HTM.
  32 ;; Windows-1255 is also supported.
  33
  34 ;;; Code:
  35
  36 (make-coding-system
  37  'hebrew-iso-8bit 2 ?8
  38  "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)."
  39  '(ascii hebrew-iso8859-8 nil nil
  40    nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil nil t)
  41  '((safe-charsets ascii hebrew-iso8859-8)
  42    (mime-charset . iso-8859-8)))
  43
  44 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  45
  46 ;; These are for Explicit and Implicit directionality information, as
  47 ;; defined in RFC 1556.  We don't yet support directional information
  48 ;; in bidi languages, so these aliases are a lie, especially as far as
  49 ;; iso-8859-8-e is concerned.  FIXME.
  50 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-e 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  51 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-i 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  52
  53 (set-language-info-alist
  54  "Hebrew" '((charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
  55             (coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)
  56             (coding-system . (hebrew-iso-8bit))
  57             (nonascii-translation . hebrew-iso8859-8)
  58             (input-method . "hebrew")
  59             (unibyte-display . hebrew-iso-8bit)
  60             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  61             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  62
  63 (set-language-info-alist
  64  "Windows-1255" '((coding-priority windows-1255)
  65                   (coding-system windows-1255)
  66                   (features code-pages)
  67                   (documentation . "\
  68 Support for Windows-1255 encoding, e.g. for Yiddish.
  69 Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  70
  71 (provide 'hebrew)
  72
  73 ;;; arch-tag: 3ca04f32-3f1e-498e-af46-8267498ba5d9
  74 ;;; hebrew.el ends here