ISO_8859-8

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2010-09-20
 

NAME

iso_8859-8 - the 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 8859-1West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16Romanian (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.
OctDecHexCharDescription
240160A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
242162A2¢CENT SIGN
243163A3£POUND SIGN
244164A4¤CURRENCY SIGN
245165A5¥YEN SIGN
246166A6¦BROKEN BAR
247167A7§SECTION SIGN
250168A8¨DIAERESIS
251169A9©COPYRIGHT SIGN
252170AAªMULTIPLICATION SIGN
253171AB«LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254172AC¬NOT SIGN
255173AD­SOFT HYPHEN
256174AE®REGISTERED SIGN
257175AF¯MACRON
260176B0°DEGREE SIGN
261177B1±PLUS-MINUS SIGN
262178B2²SUPERSCRIPT TWO
263179B3³SUPERSCRIPT THREE
264180B4´ACUTE ACCENT
265181B5µMICRO SIGN
266182B6PILCROW SIGN
267183B7·MIDDLE DOT
270184B8¸CEDILLA
271185B9¹SUPERSCRIPT ONE
272186BAºDIVISION SIGN
273187BB»RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274188BC¼VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275189BD½VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276190BE¾VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337223DFßDOUBLE LOW LINE
340224E0àHEBREW LETTER ALEF
341225E1áHEBREW LETTER BET
342226E2âHEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343227E3ãHEBREW LETTER DALET
344228E4äHEBREW LETTER HE
345229E5åHEBREW LETTER VAV
346230E6æHEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347231E7çHEBREW LETTER HET
350232E8èHEBREW LETTER TET
351233E9éHEBREW LETTER YOD
352234EAêHEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353235EBëHEBREW LETTER KAF
354236ECìHEBREW LETTER LAMED
355237EDíHEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356238EEîHEBREW LETTER MEM
357239EFïHEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360240F0ðHEBREW LETTER NUN
361241F1ñHEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362242F2òHEBREW LETTER AYIN
363243F3óHEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364244F4ôHEBREW LETTER PE
365245F5õHEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366246F6öHEBREW LETTER TSADI
367247F7÷HEBREW LETTER QOF
370248F8øHEBREW LETTER RESH
371249F9ùHEBREW LETTER SHIN
372250FAúHEBREW LETTER TAV
375253FDýLEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376254FEþRIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
 

NOTES

ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.  

SEE ALSO

ascii(7)  

COLOPHON

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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
ISO 8859 Alphabets
ISO 8859-8 Characters
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
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