ISO_8859-8(7)

💖 NAME 💖

iso_8859-8 — the ISO/IEC 8859-8 character set, served to you three ways: octal, decimal, and hexadecimal ✨ (yes bestie, a whole manual page just for the Hebrew vibe 💜)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the lore 🫶 The ISO/IEC 8859 standard is a whole girlies-and-theybies family of 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (which, for the record, also goes by ISO/IEC 646-IRV). And ISO/IEC 8859-8? She's the one that encodes the characters used in Modern Hebrew 💅 iconic, no notes.

🌈 ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets 🌈

This is the full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets, and yes you will be seeing all sixteen of them, we do not skip 💀

• ISO/IEC 8859-1 — West European languages (Latin-1)
• ISO/IEC 8859-2 — Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
• ISO/IEC 8859-3 — Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
• ISO/IEC 8859-4 — Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
• ISO/IEC 8859-5 — Latin/Cyrillic
• ISO/IEC 8859-6 — Latin/Arabic
• ISO/IEC 8859-7 — Latin/Greek
• ISO/IEC 8859-8 — Latin/Hebrew 👈 that's her, that's the main character 🎀
• ISO/IEC 8859-9 — Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
• ISO/IEC 8859-10 — Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
• ISO/IEC 8859-11 — Latin/Thai
• ISO/IEC 8859-13 — Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
• ISO/IEC 8859-14 — Celtic (Latin-8)
• ISO/IEC 8859-15 — West European languages (Latin-9)
• ISO/IEC 8859-16 — Romanian (Latin-10)

ngl you might have clocked that ISO/IEC 8859-12 is simply not on this list 💀 not our fault, not our problem, the original says what the original says.

🦋 ISO/IEC 8859-8 characters 🦋

The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-8 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page 🫶 So if it's already living its life over in ascii(7), it is not getting a second invite here. Periodt.

Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
242   162   A2     ¢     CENT SIGN
243   163   A3     £     POUND SIGN
244   164   A4     ¤     CURRENCY SIGN
245   165   A5     ¥     YEN SIGN
246   166   A6     ¦     BROKEN BAR
247   167   A7     §     SECTION SIGN
250   168   A8     ¨     DIAERESIS
251   169   A9     ©     COPYRIGHT SIGN
252   170   AA     ×     MULTIPLICATION SIGN
253   171   AB     «     LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254   172   AC     ¬     NOT SIGN
255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
256   174   AE     ®     REGISTERED SIGN
257   175   AF     ¯     MACRON
260   176   B0     °     DEGREE SIGN
261   177   B1     ±     PLUS-MINUS SIGN
262   178   B2     ²     SUPERSCRIPT TWO
263   179   B3     ³     SUPERSCRIPT THREE
264   180   B4     ´     ACUTE ACCENT
265   181   B5     µ     MICRO SIGN
266   182   B6     ¶     PILCROW SIGN
267   183   B7     ·     MIDDLE DOT
270   184   B8     ¸     CEDILLA
271   185   B9     ¹     SUPERSCRIPT ONE
272   186   BA     ÷     DIVISION SIGN
273   187   BB     »     RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274   188   BC     ¼     VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
275   189   BD     ½     VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276   190   BE     ¾     VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
337   223   DF     ‗     DOUBLE LOW LINE
340   224   E0     א     HEBREW LETTER ALEF
341   225   E1     ב     HEBREW LETTER BET
342   226   E2     ג     HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
343   227   E3     ד     HEBREW LETTER DALET
344   228   E4     ה     HEBREW LETTER HE
345   229   E5     ו     HEBREW LETTER VAV
346   230   E6     ז     HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
347   231   E7     ח     HEBREW LETTER HET
350   232   E8     ט     HEBREW LETTER TET
351   233   E9     י     HEBREW LETTER YOD
352   234   EA     ך     HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF
353   235   EB     כ     HEBREW LETTER KAF
354   236   EC     ל     HEBREW LETTER LAMED
355   237   ED     ם     HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
356   238   EE     מ     HEBREW LETTER MEM
357   239   EF     ן     HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN
360   240   F0     נ     HEBREW LETTER NUN
361   241   F1     ס     HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH
362   242   F2     ע     HEBREW LETTER AYIN
363   243   F3     ף     HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE
364   244   F4     פ     HEBREW LETTER PE
365   245   F5     ץ     HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI
366   246   F6     צ     HEBREW LETTER TSADI
367   247   F7     ק     HEBREW LETTER QOF
370   248   F8     ר     HEBREW LETTER RESH
371   249   F9     ש     HEBREW LETTER SHIN
372   250   FA     ת     HEBREW LETTER TAV
375   253   FD     ‎     LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
376   254   FE     ‏     RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

fr fr, screenshot this table, you're gonna want it later 💜

🔥 NOTES 🔥

ISO/IEC 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138 — yes she had an alias, mysterious queen 🧚

And the honest-to-god tea, bestie: ISO/IEC 8859-8 includes neither short vowels nor diacritical marks, and Yiddish is not provided for. 😭 So if that's what you needed, this is not the charset for you and no amount of manifesting will change it.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ascii(7), charsets(7), utf-8(7) — your little study group, go read them next 📚✨

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and that's a wrap on the ISO/IEC 8859-8 lore drop 👑 This page is from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08. slay, mwah 💅💖