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+;;; hebrew.el --- Support for Hebrew
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
+
+;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; For Hebrew, the character sets ISO8859-8 is supported.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(make-coding-system
+ 'iso-8859-8 2 ?8 "MIME ISO-8859-8"
+ '((ascii t) (hebrew-iso8859-8 t) nil nil
+   nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t))
+
+(register-input-method
+ "Hebrew" '("quail-hebrew" quail-use-package "quail/hebrew"))
+
+(defun setup-hebrew-environment ()
+  "Setup multilingual environment (MULE) for Hebrew.
+But, please note that right-to-left writing is not yet supported."
+  (interactive)
+  (setq coding-category-iso-8-1 'iso-8859-8)
+
+  (set-coding-priority
+   '(coding-category-iso-7
+     coding-category-iso-8-1
+     coding-category-iso-8-2))
+
+  (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
+  (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
+  (set-keyboard-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
+
+  (setq default-input-method '("Hebrew" . "quail-hebrew"))
+  )
+
+(defun describe-hebrew-support ()
+  "Describe how Emacs supports Hebrew."
+  (interactive)
+  (describe-language-support-internal "Hebrew"))
+
+(set-language-info-alist
+ "Hebrew" '((setup-function . setup-hebrew-environment)
+	    (describe-function . describe-hebrew-support)
+	    (charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
+	    (coding-system . (iso-8859-8))
+	    (sample-text . "Hebrew	,Hylem(B")
+	    (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
+
+;;; hebew.el ends here