iso_8859_8(7)

ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal,

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Description

ISO_8859-8

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:

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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.

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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.