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 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 that 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.
See Also
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Referenced By
The man pages iso-8859-8(7) and iso_8859_8(7) are aliases of iso_8859-8(7).