iso_8859-8 - ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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.
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) |
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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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.
ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7)
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