International Standards for Hebrew
There are a number of bodies involved in international
standards which concern Hebrew:
- The
Unicode Standard, Version 3.0
- Unicode 3.0 is the latest release of the Unicode Standard,
published February 2000.
- Unicode
Technical Report #9, The Bidirectional Algorithm
- "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,
Version 3.0.
- What
is Unicode?
- A short, general, description of Unicode.
- Unicode Hebrew Charts
- See a chart of Unicode Hebrew HTML,
PDF.
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 10646-1:2000- Information Technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded
Character Set (UCS) - Part 1: Architecture and Basic
Multilingual Plane
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
W3C - The World Wide
Web Consortium
HTML 4.01
Specification- W3C Recommendation, 24 December 1999
- RFC 2070
- Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language
This is now incorporated into the HTML 4.0
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
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
Technical Report TR/53 (1992)
- Handling of Bi-Directional Texts
- 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
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