Code page 862

Code page 862 (also known as CP 862, IBM 00862,^[1] OEM 862 (Hebrew),^[2][3] MS-DOS Hebrew^[4])is a code page used under 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 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.

Code page layout

The following table shows code page 862.^[2][5] It has the Hebrew letters in code positions 128–154 (80–9A_hex), but otherwise it is identical to code page 437. 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 page 862

	_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	¢ 00A2 155	£ 00A3 156	¥ 00A5 157	₧ 20A7 158	ƒ 0192 159
A_	á 00E1 160	í 00ED 161	ó 00F3 162	ú 00FA 163	ñ 00F1 164	Ñ 00D1 165	ª 00AA 166	º 00BA 167	¿ 00BF 168	⌐ 2310 169	¬ 00AC 170	½ 00BD 171	¼ 00BC 172	¡ 00A1 173	« 00AB 174	» 00BB 175
B_	░ 2591 176	▒ 2592 177	▓ 2593 178	│ 2502 179	┤ 2524 180	╡ 2561 181	╢ 2562 182	╖ 2556 183	╕ 2555 184	╣ 2563 185	║ 2551 186	╗ 2557 187	╝ 255D 188	╜ 255C 189	╛ 255B 190	┐ 2510 191
C_	└ 2514 192	┴ 2534 193	┬ 252C 194	├ 251C 195	─ 2500 196	┼ 253C 197	╞ 255E 198	╟ 255F 199	╚ 255A 200	╔ 2554 201	╩ 2569 202	╦ 2566 203	╠ 2560 204	═ 2550 205	╬ 256C 206	╧ 2567 207
D_	╨ 2568 208	╤ 2564 209	╥ 2565 210	╙ 2559 211	╘ 2558 212	╒ 2552 213	╓ 2553 214	╫ 256B 215	╪ 256A 216	┘ 2518 217	┌ 250C 218	█ 2588 219	▄ 2584 220	▌ 258C 221	▐ 2590 222	▀ 2580 223
E_	α 03B1 224	ß 00DF 225	Γ 0393 226	π 03C0 227	Σ 03A3 228	σ 03C3 229	µ 00B5 230	τ 03C4 231	Φ 03A6 232	Θ 0398 233	Ω 03A9 234	δ 03B4 235	∞ 221E 236	φ 03C6 237	ε 03B5 238	∩ 2229 239
F_	≡ 2261 240	± 00B1 241	≥ 2265 242	≤ 2264 243	⌠ 2320 244	⌡ 2321 245	÷ 00F7 246	≈ 2248 247	° 00B0 248	∙ 2219 249	· 00B7 250	√ 221A 251	ⁿ 207F 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. "00862". Code pages by CPGID. IBM. Retrieved 25 Nov 2011.
2. "OEM 862". Go Global Developer Center. Microsoft. Retrieved 25 Nov 2011.
3. "Code Pages Supported by Windows: OEM Code Pages". Go Global Developer Center. Microsoft. Retrieved 11 Oct 2011.
4. "Code Page 862 MS-DOS Hebrew". Developing International Software. Microsoft. Retrieved 25 Nov 2011.
5. "cp862_DOSHebrew to Unicode table" (TXT). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 25 Nov 2011.

See also

• 7-bit Hebrew under ISO 646
• Hebrew MS-DOS (HDOS)