Code page 856

Code page 856 (also known as CP 856 and IBM 00856,^[1]) 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.^[1]

Code page 856

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
8_	א 05D0 128	ב 05D1 129	ג 05D2 130	ד 05D3 131	ה 05D4 132	ו 05D5 133	ז 05D6 134	ח 05D7 135	ט 05D8 136	י 05D9 137	ך 05DA 138	כ 05DB 139	ל 05DC 140	ם 05DD 141	מ 05DE 142	ן 05DF 143
9_	נ 05E0 144	ס 05E1 145	ע 05E2 146	ף 05E3 147	פ 05E4 148	ץ 05E5 149	צ 05E6 150	ק 05E7 151	ר 05E8 152	ש 05E9 153	ת 05EA 154	155	£ 00A3 156	157	× 00D7 158	₪ 20AA 159
A_	LRM 200E 160	RLM 200F 161	LRE 202A 162	RLE 202B 163	LRO 202D 164	RLO 202E 165	PDF 202C 166	167	168	® 00AE 169	¬ 00AC 170	½ 00BD 171	¼ 00BC 172	€ 20AC 173	« 00AB 174	» 00BB 175
B_	░ 2591 176	▒ 2592 177	▓ 2593 178	│ 2502 179	┤ 2524 180	181	182	183	© 00A9 184	╣ 2563 185	║ 2551 186	╗ 2557 187	╝ 255D 188	¢ 00A2 189	¥ 00A5 190	┐ 2510 191
C_	└ 2514 192	┴ 2534 193	┬ 252C 194	├ 251C 195	─ 2500 196	┼ 253C 197	198	199	╚ 255A 200	╔ 2554 201	╩ 2569 202	╦ 2566 203	╠ 2560 204	═ 2550 205	╬ 256C 206	¤ 00A4 207
D_	208	209	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	┘ 2518 217	┌ 250C 218	█ 2588 219	220	¦ 00A6 221	▐ 2590 222	▀ 2580 223
E_	224	225	226	227	228	229	230	231	232	233	234	235	236	237	¯ 00AF 238	´ 00B4 239
F_	SHY 00AD 240	± 00B1 241	‗ 2017 242	¾ 00BE 243	¶ 00B6 244	§ 00A7 245	÷ 00F7 246	¸ 00B8 247	° 00B0 248	¨ 00A8 249	• 2022 250	¹ 00B9 251	³ 00B3 252	² 00B2 253	■ 25A0 254	NBSP 00A0 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

References

1. "00856". Code pages by CPGID. IBM. Retrieved 13 Nov 2011.