1 ;;; hebrew.el --- Support for Hebrew
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
4 ;; Licensed to the Free Software Foundation.
6 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
27 ;; For Hebrew, the character sets ISO8859-8 is supported.
31 ;; Syntax of Hebrew characters
32 (loop for c from 96 to 122
33 do (modify-syntax-entry (make-char 'hebrew-iso8859-8 c) "w"))
34 (modify-syntax-entry (make-char 'hebrew-iso8859-8 32) "w") ; no-break space
37 ;; (make-coding-system
38 ;; 'hebrew-iso-8bit 2 ?8
39 ;; "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)"
40 ;; '((ascii t) (hebrew-iso8859-8 t) nil nil
41 ;; nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t))
43 ;; (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
49 charset-g1 hebrew-iso8859-8
57 'ctext-hebrew 'iso2022
58 "Coding-system of Hebrew."
60 charset-g1 hebrew-iso8859-8
66 (defun setup-hebrew-environment ()
67 "Setup multilingual environment (MULE) for Hebrew.
68 But, please note that right-to-left writing is not yet supported."
70 (setup-8-bit-environment "Hebrew" 'hebrew-iso8859-8 'iso-8859-8
72 (set-coding-category-system 'iso-8-designate 'iso-8859-8)
73 (set-coding-priority-list
84 (set-language-info-alist
85 "Hebrew" '((setup-function . setup-hebrew-environment)
86 (describe-function . describe-hebrew-support)
87 (charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
88 (coding-system . (iso-8859-8))
89 (sample-text . "Hebrew
\e,Hylem
\e(B")
90 (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")
93 ;;; hebrew.el ends here