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Windows-1255 is a codepage used under Microsoft Windows to write Hebrew. It is a compatible superset of ISO 8859-8 - the letters are in the same positions, but Windows-1255 adds vowel-points and other signs in lower positions.

Modern applications prefer UTF-8 or UTF-16 to windows 1255.

Codepage layout

Only the upper half (128–255) is shown, the lower half (0–127) being plain ASCII.

.0 .1.2 .3.4 .5.6 .7.8 .9.A .B.C .D.E .F
 
8.
 		€
20AC		 ‚
201A		ƒ
192		„
201E		…
2026		†
2020		‡
2021		ˆ
2C6		‰
2030		 ‹
2039		    
 
9.
 		 ‘
2018		’
2019		“
201C		”
201D		•
2022		–
2013		—
2014		˜
2DC		™
2122		 ›
203A		    
 
A.
 		 
A0		¡
A1		¢
A2		£
A3		₪
20AA		¥
A5		¦
A6		§
A7		¨
A8		©
A9		×
D7		«
AB		¬
AC		­
AD		®
AE		¯
AF
 
B.
 		°
B0		±
B1		²
B2		³
B3		´
B4		µ
B5
B6		·
B7		¸
B8		¹
B9		÷
F7		»
BB		¼
BC		½
BD		¾
BE		¿
BF
 
C.
 		ְ
5B0		ֱ
5B1		ֲ
5B2		ֳ
5B3		ִ
5B4		ֵ
5B5		ֶ
5B6		ַ
5B7		ָ
5B8		ֹ
5B9		 ֻ
5BB		ּ
5BC		ֽ
5BD		־
5BE		ֿ
5BF
 
D.
 		׀
5C0		ׁ
5C1		ׂ
5C2		׃
5C3		װ
5F0		ױ
5F1		ײ
5F2		׳
5F3		״
5F4		       
 
E.
 		א
5D0		ב
5D1		ג
5D2		ד
5D3		ה
5D4		ו
5D5		ז
5D6		ח
5D7		ט
5D8		י
5D9		ך
5DA		כ
5DB		ל
5DC		ם
5DD		מ
5DE		ן
5DF
 
F.
 		נ
5E0		ס
5E1		ע
5E2		ף
5E3		פ
5E4		ץ
5E5		צ
5E6		ק
5E7		ר
5E8		ש
5E9		ת
5EA		  ‎
200E		‏
200F		 


Usage

Windows-1255 Hebrew is always in logical order (as opposed to visual). Microsoft Hebrew products (Windows, Office and Internet Explorer) brought logically ordered Hebrew to common use, with the result that Windows-1255 is the Hebrew encoding that can be found most on the Web, having ousted the visually ordered ISO-8859-8, and preferred to the logically ordered ISO-8859-8-I because it provides for vowel-points.

Relation to Unicode

The Unicode block in Hebrew (U+0590–U+05FF) follows Windows-1255 by encoding both letters and vowel-points in the same relative positions as Windows-1255. Unicode goes further in encoding cantillation marks in lower positions. Unicode Hebrew is always in logical order.

For modern applications UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a preferred encoding.

See also

External Links

Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character.
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Microsoft Windows

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Company/developer: Microsoft Corporation
OS family: MS-DOS/9x-based, Windows CE, Windows NT
Source model: Closed source

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Hebrew}}} 
Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad 
Official status
Official language of:  Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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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 (no Hebrew vowel signs).
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), generally pronounced ask-ee IPA: /ˈæski/ ( [1] ), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet.
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ISO-8859-8-I is the IANA charset name for the character encoding ISO/IEC 8859-8 used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (0x00–0x1F) and C1 (0x80–0x9F) parts. The characters are in logical order.
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Code page 862 is a code page for Hebrew under DOS. Like ISO 8859-8, it encodes only letters, not vowel-points or cantillation marks. It has the Hebrew letters in positions 80–9A hex, but otherwise it is identical to CP437.
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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 (no Hebrew vowel signs).
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