MIME / IANA | IBM862 |
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Alias(es) | cp862, 862, csPC862LatinHebrew[1] |
Code page 862 (CCSID 862)[2] (also known as CP 862, IBM 00862, OEM 862 (Hebrew),[3][4] MS-DOS Hebrew[5]) is a code page used under DOS in Israel for Hebrew.[6]
Like ISO 8859-8, it encodes only letters, not vowel-points or cantillation marks. As DOS had no inherent bidirectionality support,[citation needed] 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 862 was replaced by Windows-1255 in Windows 3.x and 9x systems, and later by Unicode in Windows NT onwards. It is now obsolete.
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