Network Working Group H. Nussbacher Request for Comments: 1555 Israeli Inter-University Category: Informational Computer Center Y. Bourvine Hebrew University December 1993 Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC 822] for transferring Hebrew. The standard devised makes use of MIME [RFC 1521] and ISO-8859-8. Description All Hebrew text when transferred via e-mail must first be translated into ISO-8859-8, and then encoded using either Quoted-Printable (preferable) or Base64, as defined in MIME. The following table provides the four most common Hebrew encodings: PC IBM PC ISO Hebrew 8859-8 letter 8-bit 7-bit 8-bit Ascii EBCDIC Ascii Ascii ---------- ----- ------ ----- ------ alef 128 41 96 224 bet 129 42 97 225 gimel 130 43 98 226 dalet 131 44 99 227 he 132 45 100 228 vav 133 46 101 229 zayin 134 47 102 230 het 135 48 103 231 tet 136 49 104 232 yod 137 51 105 233 kaf sofit 138 52 106 234 kaf 139 53 107 235 lamed 140 54 108 236 Nussbacher & Bourvine