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The DEC Hebrew character set is an 8-bit character set developed by
Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...
(DEC) to support the
Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet (, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicase, unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably ...
. It was derived from DEC's
Multinational Character Set The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 terminal. It was an 8-bit extension of ASCII that added accented characters, currency symb ...
(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 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology—8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987 ...
, DEC Hebrew is similar to ISO/IEC 8859-8 and the
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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


See also

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8-bit DEC Greek Code page 1287 (CCSID 1287), also known as CP1287, DEC Greek (8-bit) and EL8DEC, is one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 terminals. It supports the Greek language. Code page layout See also *DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) *8-b ...
(
Code page 1287 Code page 1287 (CCSID 1287), also known as CP1287, DEC Greek (8-bit) and EL8DEC, is one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 terminals. It supports the Greek language. Code page layout See also * DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) * 8 ...
) *
8-bit DEC Turkish Code page 1288 (CCSID 1288), also known as CP1288, DEC Turkish (8-bit) and TR8DEC, is one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 terminals. It supports the Turkish language. Code page layout See also * DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) ...
(
Code page 1288 Code page 1288 (CCSID 1288), also known as CP1288, DEC Turkish (8-bit) and TR8DEC, is one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 terminals. It supports the Turkish language. Code page layout See also *DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) ...
) * 8-bit DEC Cyrillic (KOI-8 Cyrillic) *
7-bit DEC Hebrew The Israeli Standards Institute's Standard SI 960 defines a 7–bit Hebrew code page. It is derived from, but does not conform to, ISO/IEC 646; more specifically, it follows ASCII except for the lowercase letters and backtick (`), which are rep ...
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SI 960 The Israeli Standards Institute's Standard SI 960 defines a 7–bit Hebrew code page. It is derived from, but does not conform to, ISO/IEC 646; more specifically, it follows ASCII except for the lowercase letters and backtick (`), which are repl ...
)


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