ISO_8859-8

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2020-08-13
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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 8859-1West 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 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.
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
252170AA×MULTIPLICATION 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
272186BA÷DIVISION SIGN
273187BB»RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274188BC¼VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275189BD½VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276190BE¾VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337223DF‗DOUBLE LOW LINE
340224E0אHEBREW LETTER ALEF
341225E1בHEBREW LETTER BET
342226E2גHEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343227E3דHEBREW LETTER DALET
344228E4הHEBREW LETTER HE
345229E5וHEBREW LETTER VAV
346230E6זHEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347231E7חHEBREW LETTER HET
350232E8טHEBREW LETTER TET
351233E9יHEBREW LETTER YOD
352234EAךHEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353235EBכHEBREW LETTER KAF
354236ECלHEBREW LETTER LAMED
355237EDםHEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356238EEמHEBREW LETTER MEM
357239EFןHEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360240F0נHEBREW LETTER NUN
361241F1סHEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362242F2עHEBREW LETTER AYIN
363243F3ףHEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364244F4פHEBREW LETTER PE
365245F5ץHEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366246F6צHEBREW LETTER TSADI
367247F7קHEBREW LETTER QOF
370248F8רHEBREW LETTER RESH
371249F9שHEBREW LETTER SHIN
372250FAתHEBREW LETTER TAV
375253FD‎LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376254FE‏RIGHT-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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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
ISO 8859 alphabets
ISO 8859-8 characters
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
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