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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 8859-1    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

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