<s>
ISO/IEC	O
8859-8	O
,	O
Information	O
technology	O
—	O
8-bit	O
single-byte	O
coded	O
graphic	O
character	B-General_Concept
sets	I-General_Concept
—	O
Part	O
8	O
:	O
Latin/Hebrew	O
alphabet	O
,	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
ISO/IEC	O
8859	O
series	O
of	O
ASCII-based	O
standard	O
character	B-General_Concept
encodings	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
assigned	O
code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
916	I-General_Concept
(	O
CCSIDs	O
916	O
and	O
5012	O
)	O
to	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
was	O
also	O
adopted	O
by	O
Israeli	O
Standard	O
SI1311:2002	O
,	O
with	O
some	O
extensions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ISO-8859-8	O
is	O
the	O
IANA	O
preferred	O
charset	B-General_Concept
name	O
for	O
this	O
standard	O
when	O
supplemented	O
with	O
the	O
C0	O
and	O
C1	O
control	O
codes	O
from	O
ISO/IEC	O
6429	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
WHATWG	B-Language
Encoding	O
Standard	O
used	O
by	O
HTML5	B-Application
treats	O
ISO-8859-8	O
and	O
ISO-8859-8	O
-	O
as	O
distinct	O
encodings	O
with	O
the	O
same	O
mapping	O
due	O
to	O
influence	O
on	O
the	O
layout	O
direction	O
,	O
but	O
notes	O
that	O
this	O
no	O
longer	O
applies	O
to	O
ISO-8859-6	O
(	O
Arabic	O
)	O
,	O
only	O
to	O
ISO-8859-8	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
also	O
ISO-8859-8-E	O
which	O
supposedly	O
requires	O
directionality	O
to	O
be	O
explicitly	O
specified	O
with	O
special	O
control	O
characters	O
;	O
this	O
latter	O
variant	O
is	O
in	O
practice	O
unused	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
code	O
page	O
for	O
Hebrew	O
,	O
Windows-1255	O
,	O
is	O
mostly	O
an	O
extension	O
of	O
ISO/IEC	O
8859-8	O
without	O
C1	O
controls	O
,	O
except	O
for	O
the	O
omission	O
of	O
the	O
double	O
underscore	O
,	O
and	O
replacement	O
of	O
the	O
generic	O
currency	O
sign	O
( ¤	O
)	O
with	O
the	O
sheqel	O
sign	O
( ₪	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
