DEC Hebrew

Short description: 8-bit character set supporting the Hebrew alphabet

DEC Hebrew (8-bit)

Created by	DEC
Classification	Extended ASCII
Based on	DEC MCS
Transforms / Encodes	SI 960
Succeeded by	ISO/IEC 8859-8

The DEC Hebrew character set is an 8-bit character set developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to support the Hebrew alphabet. It was derived from DEC's Multinational Character Set (MCS) by removing the existing definitions from code points 192 to 223 and 224 to 250 and replacing code points 251 to 256 by the Hebrew letters. This range corresponds to the Hebrew range of its 7-bit counterpart, but with the high bit set.

Since MCS is a predecessor of ISO/IEC 8859-1, DEC Hebrew is similar to ISO/IEC 8859-8 and the Windows code page 1255, that is, many characters in the range 160 to 191 are the same, and the Hebrew letters are at 192 to 250 in all three character sets.

Code page layout

DEC Hebrew (8-bit)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

NUL

SOH

STX

ETX

EOT

ENQ

ACK

BEL

BS

HT

LF

VT

FF

CR

SO

SI

DLE

DC1

DC2

DC3

DC4

NAK

SYN

ETB

CAN

EM

SUB

ESC

FS

GS

RS

US

SP

!

"

#

$

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

-

.

/

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

?

@

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

`

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

{

|

}

~

DEL

IND

NEL

SSA

ESA

HTS

HTJ

VTS

PLD

PLU

RI

SS2

SS3

DCS

PU1

PU2

STS

CCH

MW

SPA

EPA

CSI

ST

OSC

PM

APC

¡

¢

£

¥

§

¤

©

ª

«

°

±

²

³

µ

¶

·

¹

º

»

¼

½

¿

א

ב

ג

ד

ה

ו

ז

ח

ט

י

ך

כ

ל

ם

מ

ן

נ

ס

ע

ף

פ

ץ

צ

ק

ר

ש

ת

  Differences from ISO-8859-8

See also

• 8-bit DEC Greek (Code page 1287)
• 8-bit DEC Turkish (Code page 1288)
• 8-bit DEC Cyrillic (KOI-8 Cyrillic)
• 7-bit DEC Hebrew (SI 960)