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| 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, or "ISO Hebrew" encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew (or Ivrit). Neither short vowels nor diacritical marks are included, and Yiddish is not provided for.
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, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-8.
| Oct | Dec | Hex | Char | Description |
| 240 | 160 | A0 | NO-BREAK SPACE | |
| 242 | 162 | A2 | ¢ | CENT SIGN |
| 243 | 163 | A3 | £ | POUND SIGN |
| 244 | 164 | A4 | € | CURRENCY SIGN |
| 245 | 165 | A5 | ¥ | YEN SIGN |
| 246 | 166 | A6 | Š | BROKEN BAR |
| 247 | 167 | A7 | § | SECTION SIGN |
| 250 | 168 | A8 | š | DIAERESIS |
| 251 | 169 | A9 | © | COPYRIGHT SIGN |
| 252 | 170 | AA | ª | 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 SIGN |
| 261 | 177 | B1 | ± | PLUS-MINUS SIGN |
| 262 | 178 | B2 | ² | SUPERSCRIPT TWO |
| 263 | 179 | B3 | ³ | SUPERSCRIPT THREE |
| 264 | 180 | B4 | Ž | ACUTE ACCENT |
| 265 | 181 | B5 | µ | MICRO SIGN |
| 266 | 182 | B6 | ¶ | PILCROW SIGN |
| 267 | 183 | B7 | · | MIDDLE DOT |
| 270 | 184 | B8 | ž | CEDILLA |
| 271 | 185 | B9 | ¹ | SUPERSCRIPT ONE |
| 272 | 186 | BA | º | DIVISION SIGN |
| 273 | 187 | BB | » | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 274 | 188 | BC | Π| VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER |
| 275 | 189 | BD | œ | VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF |
| 276 | 190 | BE | Ÿ | VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS |
| 337 | 223 | DF | ß | DOUBLE LOW LINE |
| 340 | 224 | E0 | à | HEBREW LETTER ALEF |
| 341 | 225 | E1 | á | HEBREW LETTER BET |
| 342 | 226 | E2 | â | HEBREW LETTER GIMEL |
| 343 | 227 | E3 | ã | HEBREW LETTER DALET |
| 344 | 228 | E4 | ä | HEBREW LETTER HE |
| 345 | 229 | E5 | å | HEBREW LETTER VAV |
| 346 | 230 | E6 | æ | HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN |
| 347 | 231 | E7 | ç | HEBREW LETTER HET |
| 350 | 232 | E8 | è | HEBREW LETTER TET |
| 351 | 233 | E9 | é | HEBREW LETTER YOD |
| 352 | 234 | EA | ê | HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF |
| 353 | 235 | EB | ë | HEBREW LETTER KAF |
| 354 | 236 | EC | ì | HEBREW LETTER LAMED |
| 355 | 237 | ED | í | HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM |
| 356 | 238 | EE | î | HEBREW LETTER MEM |
| 357 | 239 | EF | ï | HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN |
| 360 | 240 | F0 | ð | HEBREW LETTER NUN |
| 361 | 241 | F1 | ñ | HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH |
| 362 | 242 | F2 | ò | HEBREW LETTER AYIN |
| 363 | 243 | F3 | ó | HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE |
| 364 | 244 | F4 | ô | HEBREW LETTER PE |
| 365 | 245 | F5 | õ | HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI |
| 366 | 246 | F6 | ö | HEBREW LETTER TSADI |
| 367 | 247 | F7 | ÷ | HEBREW LETTER QOF |
| 370 | 248 | F8 | ø | HEBREW LETTER RESH |
| 371 | 249 | F9 | ù | HEBREW LETTER SHIN |
| 372 | 250 | FA | ú | HEBREW LETTER TAV |
| 375 | 253 | FD | ý | LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK |
| 376 | 254 | FE | þ | RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK |
NOTES¶
ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.
SEE ALSO¶
COLOPHON¶
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| 2010-09-20 | Linux |