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   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- support for Hebrew -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; no-byte-compile: t -*-
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
   4 ;;   Licensed to the Free Software Foundation.
   5 ;; Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   6 ;; Copyright (C) 2003
   7 ;;   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
   8 ;;   Registration Number H13PRO009
   9
  10 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
  11
  12 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  13
  14 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  15 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  16 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  17 ;; any later version.
  18
  19 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  20 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  21 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  22 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  23
  24 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  25 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  26 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  27 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  28
  29 ;;; Commentary:
  30
  31 ;; For Hebrew, the character set ISO8859-8 is supported.
  32 ;; See http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-121.HTM.
  33 ;; Windows-1255 is also supported.
  34
  35 ;;; Code:
  36
  37 (define-coding-system 'hebrew-iso-8bit
  38   "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)."
  39   :coding-type 'charset
  40   :mnemonic ?8
  41   :charset-list '(iso-8859-8)
  42   :mime-charset 'iso-8859-8)
  43
  44 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  45
  46 ;; These are for Explicit and Implicit directionality information, as
  47 ;; defined in RFC 1556.  We don't yet support directional information
  48 ;; in bidi languages, so these aliases are a lie, especially as far as
  49 ;; iso-8859-8-e is concerned.  FIXME.
  50 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-e 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  51 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-i 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  52
  53 (set-language-info-alist
  54  "Hebrew" '((charset iso-8859-8)
  55             (coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)
  56             (coding-system hebrew-iso-8bit windows-1255 cp862)
  57             (nonascii-translation . iso-8859-8)
  58             (input-method . "hebrew")
  59             (unibyte-display . hebrew-iso-8bit)
  60             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  61             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  62
  63 (set-language-info-alist
  64  "Windows-1255" '((coding-priority windows-1255)
  65                   (coding-system windows-1255)
  66                   (documentation . "\
  67 Support for Windows-1255 encoding, e.g. for Yiddish.
  68 Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  69
  70 (define-coding-system 'windows-1255
  71   "windows-1255 (Hebrew) encoding (MIME: WINDOWS-1255)"
  72   :coding-type 'charset
  73   :mnemonic ?h
  74   :charset-list '(windows-1255)
  75   :mime-charset 'windows-1255)
  76 (define-coding-system-alias 'cp1255 'windows-1255)
  77
  78 (define-coding-system 'cp862
  79   "DOS codepage 862 (Hebrew)"
  80   :coding-type 'charset
  81   :mnemonic ?D
  82   :charset-list '(cp862)
  83   :mime-charset 'cp862)
  84 (define-coding-system-alias 'ibm862 'cp862)
  85
  86 (provide 'hebrew)
  87
  88 ;;; hebrew.el ends here