Code page 856

Code page 856 (also known as CP 856 and IBM 00856,) is a code page used under MS-DOS for Hebrew.

Like ISO 8859-8, it encodes only letters, not vowel-points or cantillation marks. As DOS had no inherent bidirectionality support, Hebrew text encoded using code page 862 was usually stored in visual order; nevertheless, a few DOS applications, notably a word processor named EinsteinWriter, stored Hebrew in logical order.

Code page layout

The following table shows code page 856. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point and its decimal code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII; although code points 1–31 and 127 (00–1F_hex and 7F_hex) have a different interpretation in some circumstances – see code page 437.

Code points 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, and 173 (9F, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, and AD_hex) were undefined until 1998 when the new sheqel sign, direction controls, and the euro sign were assigned to them.

Code page 856

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8_	Template:Chset-color-intl|א 05D0 128	Template:Chset-color-intl|ב 05D1 129	Template:Chset-color-intl|ג 05D2 130	Template:Chset-color-intl|ד 05D3 131	Template:Chset-color-intl|ה 05D4 132	Template:Chset-color-intl|ו 05D5 133	Template:Chset-color-intl|ז 05D6 134	Template:Chset-color-intl|ח 05D7 135	Template:Chset-color-intl|ט 05D8 136	Template:Chset-color-intl|י 05D9 137	Template:Chset-color-intl|ך 05DA 138	Template:Chset-color-intl|כ 05DB 139	Template:Chset-color-intl|ל 05DC 140	Template:Chset-color-intl|ם 05DD 141	Template:Chset-color-intl|מ 05DE 142	Template:Chset-color-intl|ן 05DF 143
9_	Template:Chset-color-intl|נ 05E0 144	Template:Chset-color-intl|ס 05E1 145	Template:Chset-color-intl|ע 05E2 146	Template:Chset-color-intl|ף 05E3 147	Template:Chset-color-intl|פ 05E4 148	Template:Chset-color-intl|ץ 05E5 149	Template:Chset-color-intl|צ 05E6 150	Template:Chset-color-intl|ק 05E7 151	Template:Chset-color-intl|ר 05E8 152	Template:Chset-color-intl|ש 05E9 153	Template:Chset-color-intl|ת 05EA 154	Template:Chset-color-undef|   155	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|£ 00A3 156	Template:Chset-color-undef|   157	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|× 00D7 158	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|₪ 20AA 159
A_	Template:Chset-color-graph|LRM 200E 160	Template:Chset-color-graph|RLM 200F 161	Template:Chset-color-graph|LRE 202A 162	Template:Chset-color-graph|RLE 202B 163	Template:Chset-color-graph|LRO 202D 164	Template:Chset-color-graph|RLO 202E 165	Template:Chset-color-graph|PDF 202C 166	Template:Chset-color-undef|   167	Template:Chset-color-undef|   168	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|® 00AE 169	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|¬ 00AC 170	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|½ 00BD 171	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|¼ 00BC 172	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|€ 20AC 173	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|« 00AB 174	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|» 00BB 175
B_	Template:Chset-color-graph|░ 2591 176	Template:Chset-color-graph|▒ 2592 177	Template:Chset-color-graph|▓ 2593 178	Template:Chset-color-graph|│ 2502 179	Template:Chset-color-graph|┤ 2524 180	Template:Chset-color-undef|   181	Template:Chset-color-undef|   182	Template:Chset-color-undef|   183	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|© 00A9 184	Template:Chset-color-graph|╣ 2563 185	Template:Chset-color-graph|║ 2551 186	Template:Chset-color-graph|╗ 2557 187	Template:Chset-color-graph|╝ 255D 188	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¢ 00A2 189	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¥ 00A5 190	Template:Chset-color-graph|┐ 2510 191
C_	Template:Chset-color-graph|└ 2514 192	Template:Chset-color-graph|┴ 2534 193	Template:Chset-color-graph|┬ 252C 194	Template:Chset-color-graph|├ 251C 195	Template:Chset-color-graph|─ 2500 196	Template:Chset-color-graph|┼ 253C 197	Template:Chset-color-undef|   198	Template:Chset-color-undef|   199	Template:Chset-color-graph|╚ 255A 200	Template:Chset-color-graph|╔ 2554 201	Template:Chset-color-graph|╩ 2569 202	Template:Chset-color-graph|╦ 2566 203	Template:Chset-color-graph|╠ 2560 204	Template:Chset-color-graph|═ 2550 205	Template:Chset-color-graph|╬ 256C 206	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¤ 00A4 207
D_	Template:Chset-color-undef|   208	Template:Chset-color-undef|   209	Template:Chset-color-undef|   210	Template:Chset-color-undef|   211	Template:Chset-color-undef|   212	Template:Chset-color-undef|   213	Template:Chset-color-undef|   214	Template:Chset-color-undef|   215	Template:Chset-color-undef|   216	Template:Chset-color-graph|┘ 2518 217	Template:Chset-color-graph|┌ 250C 218	Template:Chset-color-graph|█ 2588 219	Template:Chset-color-undef|   220	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¦ 00A6 221	Template:Chset-color-graph|▐ 2590 222	Template:Chset-color-graph|▀ 2580 223
E_	Template:Chset-color-undef|   224	Template:Chset-color-undef|   225	Template:Chset-color-undef|   226	Template:Chset-color-undef|   227	Template:Chset-color-undef|   228	Template:Chset-color-undef|   229	Template:Chset-color-undef|   230	Template:Chset-color-undef|   231	Template:Chset-color-undef|   232	Template:Chset-color-undef|   233	Template:Chset-color-undef|   234	Template:Chset-color-undef|   235	Template:Chset-color-undef|   236	Template:Chset-color-undef|   237	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¯ 00AF 238	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|´ 00B4 239
F_	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|SHY 00AD 240	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|± 00B1 241	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|‗ 2017 242	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¾ 00BE 243	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¶ 00B6 244	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|§ 00A7 245	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|÷ 00F7 246	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¸ 00B8 247	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|° 00B0 248	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¨ 00A8 249	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct|• 2022 250	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|¹ 00B9 251	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|³ 00B3 252	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|² 00B2 253	Template:Chset-color-graph|■ 25A0 254	Template:Chset-color-ext-punct-var|NBSP 00A0 255
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