lisp/language/hebrew.el

   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- support for Hebrew -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; -*-
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
   4 ;; Licensed to the Free Software Foundation.
   5 ;; Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   6
   7 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
   8
   9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  10
  11 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  12 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  13 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  14 ;; any later version.
  15
  16 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  17 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  18 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  19 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  20
  21 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  22 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  23 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  24 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  25
  26 ;;; Commentary:
  27
  28 ;; For Hebrew, the character set ISO8859-8 is supported.
  29 ;; See http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-121.HTM.
  30 ;; Windows-1255 is also supported.
  31
  32 ;;; Code:
  33
  34 (make-coding-system
  35  'hebrew-iso-8bit 2 ?8
  36  "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)."
  37  '(ascii hebrew-iso8859-8 nil nil
  38    nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t)
  39  '((safe-charsets ascii hebrew-iso8859-8)
  40    (mime-charset . iso-8859-8)))
  41
  42 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  43
  44 ;; These are for Explicit and Implicit directionality information, as
  45 ;; defined in RFC 1556.  We don't yet support directional information
  46 ;; in bidi languages, so these aliases are a lie, especially as far as
  47 ;; iso-8859-8-e is concerned.  FIXME.
  48 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-e 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  49 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-i 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  50
  51 (set-language-info-alist
  52  "Hebrew" '((charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
  53             (coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)
  54             (coding-system . (hebrew-iso-8bit))
  55             (nonascii-translation . hebrew-iso8859-8)
  56             (input-method . "hebrew")
  57             (unibyte-display . hebrew-iso-8bit)
  58             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  59             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  60
  61 (set-language-info-alist
  62  "Windows-1255" '((coding-priority windows-1255)
  63                   (coding-system windows-1255)
  64                   (features code-pages)
  65                   (documentation . "\
  66 Support for Windows-1255 encoding, e.g. for Yiddish.
  67 Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  68
  69 (provide 'hebrew)
  70
  71 ;;; hebrew.el ends here