Code page 856

Code page 856 (CCSID 856)[1] (also known as CP 856 and IBM 00856), is a code page used under DOS for Hebrew in Israel.[2]

Like ISO 8859-8, it encodes only letters, not vowel-points or cantillation marks. As non-localized issues of DOS (except for Hebrew MS-DOS a.k.a. HDOS) had no inherent bidirectionality support, Hebrew text encoded using code page 856 was usually stored in visual order; nevertheless, a few DOS applications, notably a word processor named EinsteinWriter, stored Hebrew in logical order.

CCSID 9048 added the euro currency symbol and new sheqel sign, and added direction controls at code points A0 through A6_hex.[3][2]

Character set

The following table shows code page 856. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode 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 code page 437.

Code page 856[4][5][6][7][8]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
8_ 128	א 05D0	ב 05D1	ג 05D2	ד 05D3	ה 05D4	ו 05D5	ז 05D6	ח 05D7	ט 05D8	י 05D9	ך 05DA	כ 05DB	ל 05DC	ם 05DD	מ 05DE	ן 05DF
9_ 144	נ 05E0	ס 05E1	ע 05E2	ף 05E3	פ 05E4	ץ 05E5	צ 05E6	ק 05E7	ר 05E8	ש 05E9	ת 05EA		£ 00A3		× 00D7	₪ 20AA
A_ 160	LRM 200E	RLM 200F	LRE 202A	RLE 202B	LRO 202D	RLO 202E	PDF 202C			® 00AE	¬ 00AC	½ 00BD	¼ 00BC	€ 20AC	« 00AB	» 00BB
B_ 176	░ 2591	▒ 2592	▓ 2593	│ 2502	┤ 2524				© 00A9	╣ 2563	║ 2551	╗ 2557	╝ 255D	¢ 00A2	¥ 00A5	┐ 2510
C_ 192	└ 2514	┴ 2534	┬ 252C	├ 251C	─ 2500	┼ 253C			╚ 255A	╔ 2554	╩ 2569	╦ 2566	╠ 2560	═ 2550	╬ 256C	¤ 00A4
D_ 208										┘ 2518	┌ 250C	█ 2588	▄ 2584	¦ 00A6		▀ 2580
E_ 224							µ 00B5								¯ 00AF	´ 00B4
F_ 240	SHY 00AD	± 00B1	‗ 2017	¾ 00BE	¶ 00B6	§ 00A7	÷ 00F7	¸ 00B8	° 00B0	¨ 00A8	• 2022	¹ 00B9	³ 00B3	² 00B2	■ 25A0	NBSP 00A0

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

References

1. "CCSID 856 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
2. "Code page 856 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
3. "CCSID 9048 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
4. Whistler, Ken (1999-07-27). "cp856_Hebrew_PC to Unicode table". Unicode, Inc. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
5. "00856" (PDF). Code pages by CPGID. IBM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
6. Code Page CPGID 00856 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
7. Code Page CPGID 00856 (txt), IBM
8. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-856_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03