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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. 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 .
The symbol "₪", which represents the sheqel sign, can be typed into Windows, Linux and ChromeOS with the Hebrew keyboard layout set, using AltGr+4. On Mac OS X, it can be typed as ⇧ Shift+7. If a US or EU layout is in use, the sequence is Alt+ 20AA for some Windows applications and Ctrl+⇧ Shift+u 20AAspace on Unix heritage systems.
There are two groups of system code pages in Windows systems: OEM and Windows-native ("ANSI") code pages. (ANSI is the American National Standards Institute.) Code pages in both of these groups are extended ASCII code pages. Additional code pages are supported by standard Windows conversion routines, but not used as either type of system code page.
The Microsoft Windows code page for Hebrew, Windows-1255, is mostly an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-8 without C1 controls, except for the omission of the double underscore, and replacement of the generic currency sign with the sheqel sign (₪). It adds support for vowel points as combining characters, and some additional punctuation.
Another more recent free download to adapt a Windows keyboard for Esperanto letters is Tajpi - Esperanto Keyboard for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 by Thomas James. As cons some configuration could suppress hotkeys, like Ctrl+W to close browser tab, it will type ŭ instead.
This range corresponds to the Hebrew range of its 7-bit counterpart, but with the high bit set. Since MCS is a predecessor of ISO/IEC 8859-1 , DEC Hebrew is similar to ISO/IEC 8859-8 and the Windows code page 1255 , that is, many characters in the range 160 to 191 are the same, and the Hebrew letters are at 192 to 250 in all three character sets.
THIS IS NOT TRUE: For instance, whether on a right-to-left or left-to-right keyboard, Shift-9 always produces a logical "open parenthesis". I have fixed that and someone else has wrongly changed it back. Also the keyboard picture is wrong. Shift+9 should ALWAYS look like ( but is differently interpreted into U+0029 in a Hebrew right-to-left layout.
Current Windows versions and all back to Windows XP and prior Windows NT (3.x, 4.0) are shipped with system libraries that support string encoding of two types: 16-bit "Unicode" (UTF-16 since Windows 2000) and a (sometimes multibyte) encoding called the "code page" (or incorrectly referred to as ANSI code page). 16-bit functions have names suffixed with 'W' (from "wide") such as SetWindowTextW.