;;; hebrew.el --- Support for Hebrew -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
;; Licensed to the Free Software Foundation.

;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;;  ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) support.

;;; Code:

; (make-charset 'hebrew-iso8859-8 
; 	      "Right-Hand Part of Latin/Hebrew Alphabet (ISO/IEC 8859-8): ISO-IR-138"
; 	      '(dimension
; 		1
; 		registry "ISO8859-8"
; 		chars 96
; 		columns 1
; 		direction r2l
; 		final ?H
; 		graphic 1
; 		short-name "RHP of ISO8859/8"
; 		long-name "RHP of Hebrew (ISO 8859-8): ISO-IR-138"
; 		))

;; Syntax of Hebrew characters
(loop for c from 96 to 122
      do (modify-syntax-entry (make-char 'hebrew-iso8859-8 c) "w"))
(modify-syntax-entry (make-char 'hebrew-iso8859-8 32) "w") ; no-break space


(make-coding-system
 'iso-8859-8 'iso2022
 "ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew)"
 '(charset-g0 ascii
   charset-g1 hebrew-iso8859-8
   charset-g2 t
   charset-g3 t
   no-iso6429 t
   mnemonic "MIME/Hbrw"
   ))

(make-coding-system
 'ctext-hebrew 'iso2022
 "ISO-8859-8-E (Hebrew, explicit directional coding)"
 '(charset-g0 ascii
   charset-g1 hebrew-iso8859-8
   charset-g2 t
   charset-g3 t
   mnemonic "CText/Hbrw"
   ))

(set-language-info-alist
 "Hebrew" '((charset hebrew-iso8859-8)
	    (coding-system iso-8859-8)
	    (coding-priority iso-8859-8)
            ;; Not available in packages. 
	    ;; (input-method . "hebrew")
	    (sample-text . "Hebrew	[2],Hylem[0](B")
	    (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")
	    ))

;;; hebrew.el ends here
