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26 .TH ISO_8859-8 7 2020-08-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
28 iso_8859-8 \- ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
31 The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
32 character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
33 ISO 8859-8 encodes the
34 characters used in Modern Hebrew.
35 .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
36 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
39 ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
40 ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
41 ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
42 ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
43 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
44 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
45 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
46 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
47 ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
48 ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
49 ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
50 ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
51 ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
52 ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
53 ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
55 .SS ISO 8859-8 characters
56 The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-8 that
57 are printable and unlisted in the
62 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
64 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
65 242 162 A2 ¢ CENT SIGN
66 243 163 A3 £ POUND SIGN
67 244 164 A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
69 246 166 A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR
70 247 167 A7 § SECTION SIGN
71 250 168 A8 ¨ DIAERESIS
72 251 169 A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN
73 252 170 AA × MULTIPLICATION SIGN
74 253 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
76 255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
77 256 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
79 260 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN
80 261 177 B1 ± PLUS-MINUS SIGN
81 262 178 B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO
82 263 179 B3 ³ SUPERSCRIPT THREE
83 264 180 B4 ´ ACUTE ACCENT
84 265 181 B5 µ MICRO SIGN
85 266 182 B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN
86 267 183 B7 · MIDDLE DOT
88 271 185 B9 ¹ SUPERSCRIPT ONE
89 272 186 BA ÷ DIVISION SIGN
90 273 187 BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
91 274 188 BC ¼ VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
92 275 189 BD ½ VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
93 276 190 BE ¾ VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
94 337 223 DF ‗ DOUBLE LOW LINE
95 340 224 E0 א HEBREW LETTER ALEF
96 341 225 E1 ב HEBREW LETTER BET
97 342 226 E2 ג HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
98 343 227 E3 ד HEBREW LETTER DALET
99 344 228 E4 ה HEBREW LETTER HE
100 345 229 E5 ו HEBREW LETTER VAV
101 346 230 E6 ז HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
102 347 231 E7 ח HEBREW LETTER HET
103 350 232 E8 ט HEBREW LETTER TET
104 351 233 E9 י HEBREW LETTER YOD
105 352 234 EA ך HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
106 353 235 EB כ HEBREW LETTER KAF
107 354 236 EC ל HEBREW LETTER LAMED
108 355 237 ED ם HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
109 356 238 EE מ HEBREW LETTER MEM
110 357 239 EF ן HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
111 360 240 F0 נ HEBREW LETTER NUN
112 361 241 F1 ס HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
113 362 242 F2 ע HEBREW LETTER AYIN
114 363 243 F3 ף HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
115 364 244 F4 פ HEBREW LETTER PE
116 365 245 F5 ץ HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
117 366 246 F6 צ HEBREW LETTER TSADI
118 367 247 F7 ק HEBREW LETTER QOF
119 370 248 F8 ר HEBREW LETTER RESH
120 371 249 F9 ש HEBREW LETTER SHIN
121 372 250 FA ת HEBREW LETTER TAV
122 375 253 FD LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
123 376 254 FE RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
126 ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.
127 ISO 8859-8 includes neither short vowels nor diacritical marks,
128 and Yiddish is not provided for.