ISO-8859-8-I
In this article, we will explore the topic of ISO-8859-8-I in detail, analyzing its different aspects, impacts and perspectives. ISO-8859-8-I has been the subject of interest and controversy in recent times, and its relevance continues to grow in different areas. Throughout these pages, we will delve into its history, evolution and consequences, as well as the opinions and debates it has sparked. From a multidisciplinary approach, we will approach ISO-8859-8-I from various perspectives, trying to shed light on its implications and meanings. In short, this article aims to offer a broad and rigorous vision of ISO-8859-8-I, with the purpose of enriching knowledge and debate around this topic.
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 (00–1F hex) and C1 (80–9F) parts. The characters are in logical order.
Escape sequences (from ISO/IEC 6429 or ISO/IEC 2022) are not to be interpreted. Most applications only interpret the control codes for LF, CR, and HT. A few applications also interpret VT, FF, and NEL (in C1). Very few applications interpret the other C0 and C1 control codes.
ISO-8859-8 is sometimes in logical order (HTML, XML), and sometimes in visual (left-to-right) order (plain text without any markup). The WHATWG Encoding Standard used by HTML5 treats ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8-I as distinct encodings with the same mapping due to influence on the layout direction, but notes that this no longer applies to ISO-8859-6 (Arabic), only to ISO-8859-8.
Logical order for this charset requires bidi processing for display.
The Microsoft Windows code page for Hebrew, Windows-1255, uses logical order, and adds support for vowel points as combining characters, and some additional punctuation. It is mostly an extension of ISO-8859-8-I without C1 controls, except for the omission of the double underscore, and replacement of the universal currency sign (¤) with the sheqel sign (₪).
References
- ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "9. Legacy single-byte encodings". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
Note: ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8-I are distinct encoding names, because ISO-8859-8 has influence on the layout direction. And although historically this might have been the case for ISO-8859-6 and "ISO-8859-6-I" as well, that is no longer true.
