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   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- support for Hebrew -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; -*-
   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
   7 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
   8
   9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  10
  11 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  12 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  13 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  14 ;; any later version.
  15
  16 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  17 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  18 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  19 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  20
  21 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  22 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  23 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  24 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  25
  26 ;;; Commentary:
  27
  28 ;; For Hebrew, the character set ISO8859-8 is supported.
  29 ;; See http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-121.HTM.
  30 ;; Windows-1255 is also supported.
  31
  32 ;;; Code:
  33
  34 (define-coding-system 'hebrew-iso-8bit
  35   "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)."
  36   :coding-type 'charset
  37   :mnemonic ?8
  38   :charset-list '(iso-8859-8)
  39   :mime-charset 'iso-8859-8)
  40
  41 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  42
  43 ;; These are for Explicit and Implicit directionality information, as
  44 ;; defined in RFC 1556.  We don't yet support directional information
  45 ;; in bidi languages, so these aliases are a lie, especially as far as
  46 ;; iso-8859-8-e is concerned.  FIXME.
  47 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-e 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  48 (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-i 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
  49
  50 (set-language-info-alist
  51  "Hebrew" '((charset . iso-8859-8)
  52             (coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)
  53             (coding-system hebrew-iso-8bit windows-1255 cp862)
  54             (nonascii-translation . iso-8859-8)
  55             (input-method . "hebrew")
  56             (unibyte-display . hebrew-iso-8bit)
  57             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  58             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  59
  60 (set-language-info-alist
  61  "Windows-1255" '((coding-priority windows-1255)
  62                   (coding-system windows-1255)
  63                   (documentation . "\
  64 Support for Windows-1255 encoding, e.g. for Yiddish.
  65 Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  66
  67 (define-coding-system 'windows-1255
  68   "windows-1255 (Hebrew) encoding (MIME: WINDOWS-1255)"
  69   :coding-type 'charset
  70   :mnemonic ?h
  71   :charset-list '(windows-1255)
  72   :mime-charset 'windows-1255)
  73 (define-coding-system-alias 'cp1255 'windows-1255)
  74
  75 (define-coding-system 'cp862
  76   "DOS codepage 862 (Hebrew)"
  77   :coding-type 'charset
  78   :mnemonic ?D
  79   :charset-list '(cp862)
  80   :mime-charset 'cp862)
  81 (define-coding-system-alias 'ibm862 'cp862)
  82
  83 (provide 'hebrew)
  84
  85 ;;; hebrew.el ends here