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ISO 8859-8

ISO 8859-8, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-8 (but not as Latin-8!), is part 8 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO.

ISO 8859-8 contains all the Hebrew letters (consonants only, no Hebrew vowel signs).

ISO-8859-8, the character encoding for use with electronic documents such as HTML, exists in two different forms: if just ISO-8859-8 is given the assumed order is visual, meaning that Hebrew, an RTL script, would be written LTR, i.e. backwards. If however ISO-8859-8-i is given, the logical order is used, and Hebrew must be written correctly. As of 2004 the confusion between the two different ISO-8859-8 encodings is still great, and in practice users must still manually choose logical or visual order.

The following table lists the characters in ISO 8859-8.

ISO/IEC 8859-8
	x0	x1	x2	x3	x4	x5	x6	x7	x8	x9	xA	xB	xC	xD	xE	xF
0x	unused
1x
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	&#93	^	_
6x	`	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o
7x	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	{	|	}	~
8x	unused
9x
Ax	NBSP	�	¢	£	¤	¥	¦	§	¨	©	×	«	¬	­	®	¯
Bx	°	±	²	³	´	µ	¶	·	¸	¹	÷	»	¼	½	¾	֯
Cx	ְ	ֱ	ֲ	ֳ	ִ	ֵ	ֶ	ַ	ָ	ֹ	ֺ	ֻ	ּ	ֽ	־	ֿ
Dx	׀	ׁ	ׂ	׃	ׄ	ׅ	׆	ׇ	׈	׉	׊	׋	׌	׍	׎	׏
Ex	א	ב	ג	ד	ה	ו	ז	ח	ט	י	ך	כ	ל	ם	מ	ן
Fx	נ	ס	ע	ף	פ	ץ	צ	ק	ר	ש	ת	׫	׬	׭	׮	ׯ

In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

Code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-8.