DEC Hebrew

The DEC Hebrew character set is an 8-bit character set developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to support the Hebrew alphabet.[1] 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.[1] This range corresponds to the Hebrew range of its 7-bit counterpart, but with the high bit set.

DEC Hebrew (8-bit)

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

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)[1]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL 0000	SOH 0001	STX 0002	ETX 0003	EOT 0004	ENQ 0005	ACK 0006	BEL 0007	BS 0008	HT 0009	LF 000A	VT 000B	FF 000C	CR 000D	SO 000E	SI 000F
1_	DLE 0010	DC1 0011	DC2 0012	DC3 0013	DC4 0014	NAK 0015	SYN 0016	ETB 0017	CAN 0018	EM 0019	SUB 001A	ESC 001B	FS 001C	GS 001D	RS 001E	US 001F
2_	SP 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	$ 0024	% 0025	& 0026	' 0027	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039	: 003A	; 003B	< 003C	= 003D	> 003E	? 003F
4_	@ 0040	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F
5_	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052	S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A	[ 005B	\ 005C	] 005D	^ 005E	_ 005F
6_	` 0060	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069	j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F
7_	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A	{ 007B	| 007C	} 007D	~ 007E	DEL 007F
8_					IND 0084	NEL 0085	SSA 0086	ESA 0087	HTS 0088	HTJ 0089	VTS 008A	PLD 008B	PLU 008C	RI 008D	SS2 008E	SS3 008F
9_	DCS 0090	PU1 0091	PU2 0092	STS 0093	CCH 0094	MW 0095	SPA 0096	EPA 0097				CSI 009B	ST 009C	OSC 009D	PM 009E	APC 009F
A_		¡ 00A1	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3		¥ 00A5		§ 00A7	¤ 00A4	© 00A9	ª 00AA	« 00AB
B_	° 00B0	± 00B1	² 00B2	³ 00B3		µ 00B5	¶ 00B6	· 00B7		¹ 00B9	º 00BA	» 00BB	¼ 00BC	½ 00BD		¿ 00BF
C_
D_
E_	א 05D0	ב 05D1	ג 05D2	ד 05D3	ה 05D4	ו 05D5	ז 05D6	ח 05D7	ט 05D8	י 05D9	ך 05DA	כ 05DB	ל 05DC	ם 05DD	מ 05DE	ן 05DF
F_	נ 05E0	ס 05E1	ע 05E2	ף 05E3	פ 05E4	ץ 05E5	צ 05E6	ק 05E7	ר 05E8	ש 05E9	ת 05EA

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined   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)

References

1. Hartman Kennelly, Cynthia (1991). Unch, Jacqueline (ed.). Digital Guide To Developing International Software (1 ed.). Digital Equipment Corporation. ISBN 1-55558-063-7. EY-F577E-DP.