International Standards for Hebrew

There are a number of bodies involved in international standards which concern Hebrew:

Unicode 4.1.0 is the latest release of the Unicode Standard.

"This document describes specifications for the positioning of characters flowing from right to left, such as Arabic or Hebrew."

This technical report is approved and considered part of the Unicode Standard.

A short, general, description of Unicode.

Unicode Hebrew Charts

See a chart of Unicode Hebrew PDF.

Note:

Please note that the following Unicode characters have no equivalent in Israeli standards:

The following international standards are concerned with Hebrew:

ISO 8859-8:1999: Information Processing - 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets, Part 8: Latin/Hebrew Alphabet
ISO 6429:1992: Information Technology - Control Functions for Coded Character Sets
ISO/IEC 10646:2003: Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
ISO/IEC 10367:1991: Information technology - Standardized coded graphic character sets for use in 8-bit codes
This standard is equivalent to ISO 8859-8
ISO 639-1:2002: Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code

Note: The code for Hebrew is "he". It was changed in 1989.

RFC 2070: Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language
This is now incorporated into the HTML 4 specification
RFC 1555: Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages
This standard is equivalent to ISO 8859-8
RFC 1556: Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME

ITU-T Recommendation T.52 (03/93): Non-Latin coded character sets for telematic services
Contains a supplementary set for Hebrew with the 27 letters
Amendment 1 (10/96) to Recommendation T.52: "In order to align the names of characters from Recommendation T.52 to those of ISO/IEC 10646-1, and respecting the naming rules of T.52, some editorial changes are made."
ITU-T Recommendation T.53 (04/94): Character coded control functions for telematic services
Contains the bidi functions from ISO 6429
ITU-T Recommendation T.101 (11/94): International interworking for Videotex services
Contains the same 27 letters as T.52

Note: ITU-T recommendations used to be called CCITT recommendations

ECMA Standard ECMA-121 (1987): 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Hebrew Alphabet
This standard is equivalent to ISO 8859-8

ECMA Standard ECMA-48 (1991): Control Functions for Coded Character Sets
This standard is equivalent to ISO 6429

The latest version of this document resides at http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/stdint.htm

Please send your comments to Jonathan (Jony) Rosenne, rosennej@qsm.co.il