dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune) (03/04/91)
Is there a standard mapping of the (22+5) Hebrew letters onto 7-bit values, and if so what is it? I have got two hebrew fonts for our HP Deskjet, converted from Laserjet fonts. Both have different and highly awkward mappings, clearly intended to approximate the Latin alfabet; neither is even in collating sequence. I doubt seriously that that is the way it is done in Israel, but my most recent docs on the subject are from 1969. Ulay mishehu baAretz yakhol la'anot li lash-ela hazot? Toda raba! Dick Grune Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam the Netherlands dick@cs.vu.nl
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/04/91)
In article <9148@star.cs.vu.nl>, dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune) writes: > Is there a standard mapping of the (22+5) Hebrew letters onto 7-bit values, > and if so what is it? I have got two hebrew fonts for our HP Deskjet, > converted from Laserjet fonts. Both have different and highly awkward > mappings, clearly intended to approximate the Latin alfabet; neither is even > in collating sequence. I doubt seriously that that is the way it is done in > Israel, but my most recent docs on the subject are from 1969. The Hebrew version of ASCII places the letters in (Hebrew) order beginning with aleph at x'60 (left quote). Final forms precede the medial forms. Placement of other characters (punctuation, digits, etc.) usually follows ASCII but not always. The eight-bit Latin/Hebrew standard (ECMA-121, which I believe is the precursor to ISO 8859/8: my ECMA registry is a couple years old now) follows the same ordering, but beginning at x'E0 (=x'60+x'80). Seven-bit encoding is no longer officially sanctioned, if I remember the comments of a character set colleague correctly, but is still widely used. Unicode follows the same ordering of characters, beginning at x'05D0; three Yiddish digraphs are provided in x'05F0-x'05F2 (double vav, vav-yod, double yod) as well as marks for vocalization etc. Neither coding scheme provides distinct Sin and Shin although Unicode gives characters for "Shin dot" and "Sin dot". Either the HUMANIST or UNICODE had some long tirades on why this is [or is not] a bad plan. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.