ISO-8859-8- is the

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charset name for the character encoding ISO/IEC 8859-8 used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (00–1F hex) and C1 (80–9F) parts. The characters are in logical order. Escape sequences (from ISO/IEC 6429 or

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) are not to be interpreted. Most applications only interpret the control codes for LF, CR, and HT. A few applications also interpret VT, FF, and NEL (in C1). Very few applications interpret the other

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. ISO-8859-8 is sometimes in logical order (

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), and sometimes in visual (left-to-right) order (plain text without any markup). The

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Encoding Standard used by

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treats ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8- as distinct encodings with the same mapping due to influence on the layout direction, but notes that this no longer applies to

ISO-8859-6 ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. ...

(Arabic), only to ISO-8859-8. Logical order for this charset requires bidi processing for display. The

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code page for Hebrew, Windows-1255, uses logical order, and adds support for vowel points as combining characters, and some additional punctuation. It is mostly an extension of ISO-8859-8- without C1 controls, except for the omission of the double underscore, and replacement of the universal currency sign ( ¤) with the sheqel sign (₪).

References

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