;;; 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:

;; For Hebrew, the character sets ISO8859-8 is supported.

;;; Code:

(make-coding-system
 'hebrew-iso-8bit 2 ?8
 "ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Hebrew (MIME:ISO-8859-8)"
 '(ascii hebrew-iso8859-8 nil nil
   nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t)
 '((safe-charsets ascii hebrew-iso8859-8)
   (mime-charset . iso-8859-8)))

(define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)

(defun setup-hebrew-environment ()
  "Setup multilingual environment (MULE) for Hebrew.
But, please note that right-to-left writing is not yet supported."
  (interactive)
  (set-language-environment "Hebrew"))

(set-language-info-alist
 "Hebrew" '((charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
	    (coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)
	    (coding-system . (hebrew-iso-8bit))
	    (nonascii-translation . hebrew-iso8859-8)
	    (input-method . "hebrew")
	    (unibyte-display . hebrew-iso-8bit)
	    (sample-text . "Hebrew	,Hylem(B")
	    (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")
	    ))

;;; hebrew.el ends here
