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Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages
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Network Working Group H. Nussbacher
Request for Comments: 1555 Israeli Inter-University
Category: Informational Computer Center
Y. Bourvine
Hebrew University
December 1993
Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC 822]
for transferring Hebrew. The standard devised makes use of MIME
[RFC 1521] and ISO-8859-8.
Description
All Hebrew text when transferred via e-mail must first be translated
into ISO-8859-8, and then encoded using either Quoted-Printable
(preferable) or Base64, as defined in MIME.
The following table provides the four most common Hebrew encodings:
PC IBM PC ISO
Hebrew 8859-8
letter 8-bit 7-bit 8-bit
Ascii EBCDIC Ascii Ascii
---------- ----- ------ ----- ------
alef 128 41 96 224
bet 129 42 97 225
gimel 130 43 98 226
dalet 131 44 99 227
he 132 45 100 228
vav 133 46 101 229
zayin 134 47 102 230
het 135 48 103 231
tet 136 49 104 232
yod 137 51 105 233
kaf sofit 138 52 106 234
kaf 139 53 107 235
lamed 140 54 108 236
Nussbacher & Bourvine
