SI 960

The Israeli Standards Institute's Standard SI 960 defines a 7-bit Hebrew code page. It is derived from, but does not conform to, ISO/IEC 646; more specifically, it follows ASCII except for the lowercase letters and backtick (`), which are replaced by the naturally ordered Hebrew alphabet. It is also known as DEC Hebrew (7-bit), because DEC standardized this character set before it became an international standard.[1] Kermit named it hebrew-7 and HEBREW-7.[2][3]

"DEC Hebrew (7-bit)" redirects here. For the 8-bit character set, see DEC Hebrew (8-bit).
SI 960
Kermithebrew-7
Alias(es)DEC Hebrew (7-bit)
Created byDEC
StandardSI 960
Classification7-bit encoding, non-Latin adaptation of ISO 646 with naturally ordered letters
Based onASCII
Succeeded byDEC: DEC Hebrew (8-bit),
SII: SI 1311

The Hebrew alphabet is mapped to positions 0x60–0x7A, on top of the lowercase Latin letters (and grave accent for aleph). 7-bit Hebrew is stored in visual order.

This mapping with the high bit set, i.e. with the Hebrew letters in 0xE0–0xFA, is also reflected in ISO 8859-8.

Code page layout
SI 960[4]
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
0_
0		 NUL
0000		 SOH
0001		 STX
0002		 ETX
0003		 EOT
0004		 ENQ
0005		 ACK
0006		 BEL
0007		 BS
0008		 HT
0009		 LF
000A		 VT
000B		 FF
000C		 CR
000D		 SO
000E		 SI
000F
1_
16		 DLE
0010		 DC1
0011		 DC2
0012		 DC3
0013		 DC4
0014		 NAK
0015		 SYN
0016		 ETB
0017		 CAN
0018		 EM
0019		 SUB
001A		 ESC
001B		 FS
001C		 GS
001D		 RS
001E		 US
001F
2_
32		 SP
0020		 !
0021		 "
0022		 #
0023		 $
0024		 %
0025		 &
0026		 '
0027		 (
0028		 )
0029		 *
002A		 +
002B		 ,
002C		 -
002D		 .
002E		 /
002F
3_
48		 0
0030		 1
0031		 2
0032		 3
0033		 4
0034		 5
0035		 6
0036		 7
0037		 8
0038		 9
0039		 :
003A		 ;
003B		 <
003C		 =
003D		 >
003E		 ?
003F
4_
64		 @
0040		 A
0041		 B
0042		 C
0043		 D
0044		 E
0045		 F
0046		 G
0047		 H
0048		 I
0049		 J
004A		 K
004B		 L
004C		 M
004D		 N
004E		 O
004F
5_
80		 P
0050		 Q
0051		 R
0052		 S
0053		 T
0054		 U
0055		 V
0056		 W
0057		 X
0058		 Y
0059		 Z
005A		 [
005B		 \
005C		 ]
005D		 ^
005E		 _
005F
6_
96		 א
05D0		 ב
05D1		 ג
05D2		 ד
05D3		 ה
05D4		 ו
05D5		 ז
05D6		 ח
05D7		 ט
05D8		 י
05D9		 ך
05DA		 כ
05DB		 ל
05DC		 ם
05DD		 מ
05DE		 ן
05DF
7_
112		 נ
05E0		 ס
05E1		 ע
05E2		 ף
05E3		 פ
05E4		 ץ
05E5		 צ
05E6		 ק
05E7		 ר
05E8		 ש
05E9		 ת
05EA		 {
007B		 |
007C		 }
007D		 ~
007E

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

See also
  • ISO/IEC 646
  • DEC National Replacement Character Set (NRCS)
  • SI 1311

References
  1. Hartman Kennelly, Cynthia (1991). Unch, Jacqueline (ed.). Digital Guide To Developing International Software (1 ed.). Digital Equipment Corporation. ISBN 1-55558-063-7. EY-F577E-DP.
  2. "Character sets". Kermit. Columbia University. 2000-01-01. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  3. "Hebrew Character Sets in Kermit 95". Kermit 95 Manual. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  4. "Hebrew 7-Bit Character Set". Kermit. Columbia University. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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