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-.TH ISO_8859-8 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ISO_8859-8 7 2014-10-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
iso_8859-8 \- ISO 8859-8 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
-ISO 8859-8, or "ISO Hebrew" encodes the
-characters used in Modern Hebrew (or Ivrit).
-Neither short vowels nor diacritical marks are included,
-and Yiddish is not provided for.
+ISO 8859-8 encodes the
+characters used in Modern Hebrew.
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
-.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
-.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-8.
.TS
l l l c lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
.TE
.SH NOTES
ISO 8859-8 was also known as ISO-IR-138.
+ISO 8859-8 includes neither short vowels nor diacritical marks,
+and Yiddish is not provided for.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ascii (7)
+.BR ascii (7),
+.BR charsets (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
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