DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-8 encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew.

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.

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	¦	BROKEN BAR
247	167	A7	§	SECTION SIGN
250	168	A8	¨	DIAERESIS
251	169	A9	©	COPYRIGHT SIGN
252	170	AA	×	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	´	ACUTE ACCENT
265	181	B5	µ	MICRO SIGN
266	182	B6	¶	PILCROW SIGN
267	183	B7	·	MIDDLE DOT
270	184	B8	¸	CEDILLA
271	185	B9	¹	SUPERSCRIPT ONE
272	186	BA	÷	DIVISION SIGN
273	187	BB	»	RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274	188	BC	¼	VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275	189	BD	½	VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276	190	BE	¾	VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337	223	DF	‗	DOUBLE LOW LINE
340	224	E0	א	HEBREW LETTER ALEF
341	225	E1	ב	HEBREW LETTER BET
342	226	E2	ג	HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343	227	E3	ד	HEBREW LETTER DALET
344	228	E4	ה	HEBREW LETTER HE
345	229	E5	ו	HEBREW LETTER VAV
346	230	E6	ז	HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347	231	E7	ח	HEBREW LETTER HET
350	232	E8	ט	HEBREW LETTER TET
351	233	E9	י	HEBREW LETTER YOD
352	234	EA	ך	HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353	235	EB	כ	HEBREW LETTER KAF
354	236	EC	ל	HEBREW LETTER LAMED
355	237	ED	ם	HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356	238	EE	מ	HEBREW LETTER MEM
357	239	EF	ן	HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360	240	F0	נ	HEBREW LETTER NUN
361	241	F1	ס	HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362	242	F2	ע	HEBREW LETTER AYIN
363	243	F3	ף	HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364	244	F4	פ	HEBREW LETTER PE
365	245	F5	ץ	HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366	246	F6	צ	HEBREW LETTER TSADI
367	247	F7	ק	HEBREW LETTER QOF
370	248	F8	ר	HEBREW LETTER RESH
371	249	F9	ש	HEBREW LETTER SHIN
372	250	FA	ת	HEBREW LETTER TAV
375	253	FD	‎	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376	254	FE	‏	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

NOTES

ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138. ISO 8859-8 includes neither short vowels nor diacritical marks, and Yiddish is not provided for.

COLOPHON

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