SI 960

"DEC Hebrew (7-bit)" redirects here. For the 8-bit character set, see DEC Hebrew (8-bit).

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]

SI 960

Kermit	hebrew-7
Alias(es)	DEC Hebrew (7-bit)
Created by	DEC
Standard	SI 960
Classification	7-bit encoding, non-Latin adaptation of ISO 646 with naturally ordered letters
Based on	ASCII
Succeeded by	DEC: DEC Hebrew (8-bit), SII: SI 1311
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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

0x

NUL

SOH

STX

ETX

EOT

ENQ

ACK

BEL

BS

HT

LF

VT

FF

CR

SO

SI

1x

DLE

DC1

DC2

DC3

DC4

NAK

SYN

ETB

CAN

EM

SUB

ESC

FS

GS

RS

US

2x

SP

!

"

#

$

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

-

.

/

3x

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

?

4x

@

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

5x

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

_

6x

א

ב

ג

ד

ה

ו

ז

ח

ט

י

ך

כ

ל

ם

מ

ן

7x

נ

ס

ע

ף

פ

ץ

צ

ק

ר

ש

ת

{

|

}

~

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.