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 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.

SEE ALSO
ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)

COLOPHON
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