ISO_8859-8(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual ISO_8859-8(7) NAME iso_8859-8 - ISO/IEC 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal DESCRIPTION The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV). ISO/IEC 8859-8 encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew. ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes: l l. ISO/IEC 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1) ISO/IEC 8859-2 Central and East European lan- guages (Latin-2) ISO/IEC 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous lan- guages (Latin-3) ISO/IEC 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) ISO/IEC 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic ISO/IEC 8859-6 Latin/Arabic ISO/IEC 8859-7 Latin/Greek ISO/IEC 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew ISO/IEC 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) ISO/IEC 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) ISO/IEC 8859-11 Latin/Thai ISO/IEC 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) ISO/IEC 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8) ISO/IEC 8859-15 West Eu- ropean languages (Latin-9) ISO/IEC 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10) ISO/IEC 8859-8 characters The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-8 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. l l l c lp-1. Oct Dec Hex Char Description _ 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE 242 162 A2 A CENT SIGN 243 163 A3 A POUND SIGN 244 164 A4 A CURRENCY SIGN 245 165 A5 A YEN SIGN 246 166 A6 A BROKEN BAR 247 167 A7 A SECTION SIGN 250 168 A8 A" DIAERESIS 251 169 A9 A(C) COPYRIGHT SIGN 252 170 AA A MULTIPLICATION SIGN 253 171 AB A LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 254 172 AC A NOT SIGN 255 173 AD A- SOFT HYPHEN 256 174 AE A(R) REGISTERED SIGN 257 175 AF A MACRON 260 176 B0 A DEGREE SIGN 261 177 B1 A+/- PLUS-MINUS SIGN 262 178 B2 A SUPERSCRIPT TWO 263 179 B3 A SUPERSCRIPT THREE 264 180 B4 A' ACUTE ACCENT 265 181 B5 A MICRO SIGN 266 182 B6 A PILCROW SIGN 267 183 B7 A MIDDLE DOT 270 184 B8 A CEDILLA 271 185 B9 A SUPERSCRIPT ONE 272 186 BA A DIVISION SIGN 273 187 BB A RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 274 188 BC A1/4 VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER 275 189 BD A1/2 VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF 276 190 BE A3/4 VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS 337 223 DF a DOUBLE LOW LINE 340 224 E0 x HEBREW LETTER ALEF 341 225 E1 x HEBREW LETTER BET 342 226 E2 x HEBREW LETTER GIMEL 343 227 E3 x HEBREW LETTER DALET 344 228 E4 x HEBREW LETTER HE 345 229 E5 x HEBREW LETTER VAV 346 230 E6 x HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN 347 231 E7 x HEBREW LETTER HET 350 232 E8 x HE- BREW LETTER TET 351 233 E9 x HEBREW LETTER YOD 352 234 EA x HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF 353 235 EB x HEBREW LET- TER KAF 354 236 EC x HEBREW LETTER LAMED 355 237 ED x HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM 356 238 EE x HEBREW LETTER MEM 357 239 EF x HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN 360 240 F0 x HEBREW LET- TER NUN 361 241 F1 x HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH 362 242 F2 x HEBREW LETTER AYIN 363 243 F3 x HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE 364 244 F4 x HEBREW LETTER PE 365 245 F5 x HEBREW LETTER FI- NAL TSADI 366 246 F6 x HEBREW LETTER TSADI 367 247 F7 x HE- BREW LETTER QOF 370 248 F8 x" HEBREW LETTER RESH 371 249 F9 x(C) HEBREW LETTER SHIN 372 250 FA x HEBREW LETTER TAV 375 253 FD a LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK 376 254 FE a RIGHT-TO- LEFT MARK NOTES ISO/IEC 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138. ISO/IEC 8859-8 includes nei- ther short vowels nor diacritical marks, and Yiddish is not provided for. SEE ALSO ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7) Linux man-pages 6.18 2026-02-08 ISO_8859-8(7)