Windows-1255 Character Table
Windows-1255 encodes the Hebrew alphabet for modern Israeli Hebrew and Yiddish. Hebrew characters occupy codes 224 through 250 in right-to-left reading order, while codes 192 through 210 hold the nikud (vowel diacritics) used in dictionaries, children's books, and religious texts. Since Hebrew is written right to left, rendering CP1255 text requires bidirectional layout support. One frequent pitfall: mixing Hebrew with ASCII digits or Latin characters in a single line creates bidirectional runs that can reorder ambiguously without explicit direction markers.
256
Total Characters
33
Control
95
Printable
128
Extended
Unique to Windows-1255
105 charactersThese characters in the extended range (128-255) are what set Windows-1255 apart from other encodings. The same byte values produce different characters in other encoding standards.
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Defined character
Undefined position
Extended Characters Table
128-255Characters 128 through 255 are specific to Windows-1255. The same byte values map to different characters in other encodings. Compare encodings to see the differences.
| DEC | HEX | Symbol | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | 80 | € | Euro sign | ||
| 129 | 81 | Unused | |||
| 130 | 82 | ‚ | Single low-9 quotation mark | ||
| 131 | 83 | ƒ | Latin small letter f with hook | ||
| 132 | 84 | „ | Double low-9 quotation mark | ||
| 133 | 85 | … | Horizontal ellipsis | ||
| 134 | 86 | † | Dagger | ||
| 135 | 87 | ‡ | Double dagger | ||
| 136 | 88 | ˆ | Modifier letter circumflex accent | ||
| 137 | 89 | ‰ | Per mille sign | ||
| 138 | 8A | Unused | |||
| 139 | 8B | ‹ | Single left-pointing angle quotation | ||
| 140 | 8C | Unused | |||
| 141 | 8D | Unused | |||
| 142 | 8E | Unused | |||
| 143 | 8F | Unused | |||
| 144 | 90 | Unused | |||
| 145 | 91 | ‘ | Left single quotation mark | ||
| 146 | 92 | ’ | Right single quotation mark | ||
| 147 | 93 | “ | Left double quotation mark | ||
| 148 | 94 | ” | Right double quotation mark | ||
| 149 | 95 | • | Bullet | ||
| 150 | 96 | – | En dash | ||
| 151 | 97 | — | Em dash | ||
| 152 | 98 | ˜ | Small tilde | ||
| 153 | 99 | ™ | Trade mark sign | ||
| 154 | 9A | Unused | |||
| 155 | 9B | › | Single right-pointing angle quotation mark | ||
| 156 | 9C | Unused | |||
| 157 | 9D | Unused | |||
| 158 | 9E | Unused | |||
| 159 | 9F | Unused | |||
| 160 | A0 | Non-breaking space | |||
| 161 | A1 | ¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | ||
| 162 | A2 | ¢ | Cent sign | ||
| 163 | A3 | £ | Pound sign | ||
| 164 | A4 | ₪ | New Sheqel sign | ||
| 165 | A5 | ¥ | Yen sign | ||
| 166 | A6 | ¦ | Pipe, broken vertical bar | ||
| 167 | A7 | § | Section sign | ||
| 168 | A8 | ¨ | Spacing diaeresis - umlaut | ||
| 169 | A9 | © | Copyright sign | ||
| 170 | AA | × | Multiplication sign | ||
| 171 | AB | « | Left double angle quotes | ||
| 172 | AC | ¬ | Negation | ||
| 173 | AD | | Soft hyphen | ||
| 174 | AE | ® | Registered trade mark sign | ||
| 175 | AF | ¯ | Spacing macron - overline | ||
| 176 | B0 | ° | Degree sign | ||
| 177 | B1 | ± | Plus-or-minus sign | ||
| 178 | B2 | ² | Superscript two - squared | ||
| 179 | B3 | ³ | Superscript three - cubed | ||
| 180 | B4 | ´ | Acute accent - spacing acute | ||
| 181 | B5 | µ | Micro sign | ||
| 182 | B6 | ¶ | Pilcrow sign - paragraph sign | ||
| 183 | B7 | · | Middle dot - Georgian comma | ||
| 184 | B8 | ¸ | Spacing cedilla | ||
| 185 | B9 | ¹ | Superscript one | ||
| 186 | BA | ÷ | Division sign | ||
| 187 | BB | » | Right double angle quotes | ||
| 188 | BC | ¼ | Fraction one quarter | ||
| 189 | BD | ½ | Fraction one half | ||
| 190 | BE | ¾ | Fraction three quarters | ||
| 191 | BF | ¿ | Inverted question mark | ||
| 192 | C0 | ְ | Hebrew point Sheva | ||
| 193 | C1 | ֱ | Hebrew point Hataf Segol | ||
| 194 | C2 | ֲ | Hebrew point Hataf Patah | ||
| 195 | C3 | ֳ | Hebrew point Hataf Qamats | ||
| 196 | C4 | ִ | Hebrew point Hiriq | ||
| 197 | C5 | ֵ | Hebrew point Tsere | ||
| 198 | C6 | ֶ | Hebrew point Segol | ||
| 199 | C7 | ַ | Hebrew point Patah | ||
| 200 | C8 | ָ | Hebrew point Qamats | ||
| 201 | C9 | ֹ | Hebrew point Holam | ||
| 202 | CA | ֺ | Hebrew point Holam Haser for Vav | ||
| 203 | CB | ֻ | Hebrew point Qubuts | ||
| 204 | CC | ּ | Hebrew point Dagesh | ||
| 205 | CD | ֽ | Hebrew point Meteg | ||
| 206 | CE | ־ | Hebrew punctuation Maqaf | ||
| 207 | CF | ֿ | Hebrew point Rafe | ||
| 208 | D0 | ׀ | Hebrew point Paseq | ||
| 209 | D1 | ׁ | Hebrew point Shin dot | ||
| 210 | D2 | ׂ | Hebrew point Sin dot | ||
| 211 | D3 | ׃ | Hebrew punctuation Sof pasuq | ||
| 212 | D4 | װ | Hebrew ligature Yiddish double Vav | ||
| 213 | D5 | ױ | Hebrew ligature Yiddish Vav Yod | ||
| 214 | D6 | ײ | Hebrew ligature Yiddish double Yod | ||
| 215 | D7 | ׳ | Hebrew punctuation Geresh | ||
| 216 | D8 | ״ | Hebrew punctuation Gershayim | ||
| 217 | D9 | Unused | |||
| 218 | DA | Unused | |||
| 219 | DB | Unused | |||
| 220 | DC | Unused | |||
| 221 | DD | Unused | |||
| 222 | DE | Unused | |||
| 223 | DF | Unused | |||
| 224 | E0 | א | Hebrew letter Alef | ||
| 225 | E1 | ב | Hebrew letter Bet | ||
| 226 | E2 | ג | Hebrew letter Gimel | ||
| 227 | E3 | ד | Hebrew letter Dalet | ||
| 228 | E4 | ה | Hebrew letter He | ||
| 229 | E5 | ו | Hebrew letter Vav | ||
| 230 | E6 | ז | Hebrew letter Zayin | ||
| 231 | E7 | ח | Hebrew letter Het | ||
| 232 | E8 | ט | Hebrew letter Tet | ||
| 233 | E9 | י | Hebrew letter Yod | ||
| 234 | EA | ך | Hebrew letter final Kaf | ||
| 235 | EB | כ | Hebrew letter Kaf | ||
| 236 | EC | ל | Hebrew letter Lamed | ||
| 237 | ED | ם | Hebrew letter final Mem | ||
| 238 | EE | מ | Hebrew letter Mem | ||
| 239 | EF | ן | Hebrew letter final Nun | ||
| 240 | F0 | נ | Hebrew letter Nun | ||
| 241 | F1 | ס | Hebrew letter Samekh | ||
| 242 | F2 | ע | Hebrew letter Ayin | ||
| 243 | F3 | ף | Hebrew letter final Pe | ||
| 244 | F4 | פ | Hebrew letter Pe | ||
| 245 | F5 | ץ | Hebrew letter final Tsadi | ||
| 246 | F6 | צ | Hebrew letter Tsadi | ||
| 247 | F7 | ק | Hebrew letter Qof | ||
| 248 | F8 | ר | Hebrew letter Resh | ||
| 249 | F9 | ש | Hebrew letter Shin | ||
| 250 | FA | ת | Hebrew letter Tav | ||
| 251 | FB | Unused | |||
| 252 | FC | Unused | |||
| 253 | FD | | Left-To-Right Mark | ||
| 254 | FE | | Right-To-Left Mark | ||
| 255 | FF | Unused |
Printable Characters
95Same as standard ASCII
Codes 32 through 126 are shared across all ASCII-based encodings, covering uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, digits, punctuation, and the Space character at position 32.
| DEC | HEX | Symbol | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 20 | ␠ | Space | ||
| 33 | 21 | ! | Exclamation mark | ||
| 34 | 22 | " | Double quotes (or speech marks) | ||
| 35 | 23 | # | Number sign | ||
| 36 | 24 | $ | Dollar | ||
| 37 | 25 | % | Per cent sign | ||
| 38 | 26 | & | Ampersand | ||
| 39 | 27 | ' | Single quote | ||
| 40 | 28 | ( | Open parenthesis (or open bracket) | ||
| 41 | 29 | ) | Close parenthesis (or close bracket) | ||
| 42 | 2A | * | Asterisk | ||
| 43 | 2B | + | Plus | ||
| 44 | 2C | , | Comma | ||
| 45 | 2D | - | Hyphen-minus | ||
| 46 | 2E | . | Period, dot or full stop | ||
| 47 | 2F | / | Slash or divide | ||
| 48 | 30 | 0 | Zero | ||
| 49 | 31 | 1 | One | ||
| 50 | 32 | 2 | Two | ||
| 51 | 33 | 3 | Three | ||
| 52 | 34 | 4 | Four | ||
| 53 | 35 | 5 | Five | ||
| 54 | 36 | 6 | Six | ||
| 55 | 37 | 7 | Seven | ||
| 56 | 38 | 8 | Eight | ||
| 57 | 39 | 9 | Nine | ||
| 58 | 3A | : | Colon | ||
| 59 | 3B | ; | Semicolon | ||
| 60 | 3C | < | Less than (or open angled bracket) | ||
| 61 | 3D | = | Equals | ||
| 62 | 3E | > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) | ||
| 63 | 3F | ? | Question mark | ||
| 64 | 40 | @ | At sign | ||
| 65 | 41 | A | Uppercase A | ||
| 66 | 42 | B | Uppercase B | ||
| 67 | 43 | C | Uppercase C | ||
| 68 | 44 | D | Uppercase D | ||
| 69 | 45 | E | Uppercase E | ||
| 70 | 46 | F | Uppercase F | ||
| 71 | 47 | G | Uppercase G | ||
| 72 | 48 | H | Uppercase H | ||
| 73 | 49 | I | Uppercase I | ||
| 74 | 4A | J | Uppercase J | ||
| 75 | 4B | K | Uppercase K | ||
| 76 | 4C | L | Uppercase L | ||
| 77 | 4D | M | Uppercase M | ||
| 78 | 4E | N | Uppercase N | ||
| 79 | 4F | O | Uppercase O | ||
| 80 | 50 | P | Uppercase P | ||
| 81 | 51 | Q | Uppercase Q | ||
| 82 | 52 | R | Uppercase R | ||
| 83 | 53 | S | Uppercase S | ||
| 84 | 54 | T | Uppercase T | ||
| 85 | 55 | U | Uppercase U | ||
| 86 | 56 | V | Uppercase V | ||
| 87 | 57 | W | Uppercase W | ||
| 88 | 58 | X | Uppercase X | ||
| 89 | 59 | Y | Uppercase Y | ||
| 90 | 5A | Z | Uppercase Z | ||
| 91 | 5B | [ | Opening bracket | ||
| 92 | 5C | \ | Backslash | ||
| 93 | 5D | ] | Closing bracket | ||
| 94 | 5E | ^ | Caret - circumflex | ||
| 95 | 5F | _ | Underscore | ||
| 96 | 60 | ` | Grave accent | ||
| 97 | 61 | a | Lowercase a | ||
| 98 | 62 | b | Lowercase b | ||
| 99 | 63 | c | Lowercase c | ||
| 100 | 64 | d | Lowercase d | ||
| 101 | 65 | e | Lowercase e | ||
| 102 | 66 | f | Lowercase f | ||
| 103 | 67 | g | Lowercase g | ||
| 104 | 68 | h | Lowercase h | ||
| 105 | 69 | i | Lowercase i | ||
| 106 | 6A | j | Lowercase j | ||
| 107 | 6B | k | Lowercase k | ||
| 108 | 6C | l | Lowercase l | ||
| 109 | 6D | m | Lowercase m | ||
| 110 | 6E | n | Lowercase n | ||
| 111 | 6F | o | Lowercase o | ||
| 112 | 70 | p | Lowercase p | ||
| 113 | 71 | q | Lowercase q | ||
| 114 | 72 | r | Lowercase r | ||
| 115 | 73 | s | Lowercase s | ||
| 116 | 74 | t | Lowercase t | ||
| 117 | 75 | u | Lowercase u | ||
| 118 | 76 | v | Lowercase v | ||
| 119 | 77 | w | Lowercase w | ||
| 120 | 78 | x | Lowercase x | ||
| 121 | 79 | y | Lowercase y | ||
| 122 | 7A | z | Lowercase z | ||
| 123 | 7B | { | Opening brace | ||
| 124 | 7C | | | Vertical bar | ||
| 125 | 7D | } | Closing brace | ||
| 126 | 7E | ~ | Equivalency sign - tilde |
Control Characters
33Same as standard ASCII
The first 32 codes (plus code 127) are non-printable control characters originally used for signaling hardware devices. Only a handful - Tab (9), Line Feed (10), Carriage Return (13), and Escape (27) - remain in common use.
| DEC | HEX | Symbol | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 00 | NUL | Null character | ||
| 1 | 01 | SOH | Start of Heading | ||
| 2 | 02 | STX | Start of Text | ||
| 3 | 03 | ETX | End of Text | ||
| 4 | 04 | EOT | End of Transmission | ||
| 5 | 05 | ENQ | Enquiry | ||
| 6 | 06 | ACK | Acknowledge | ||
| 7 | 07 | BEL | Bell, Alert | ||
| 8 | 08 | BS | Backspace | ||
| 9 | 09 | HT | Horizontal Tab | ||
| 10 | 0A | LF | Line Feed | ||
| 11 | 0B | VT | Vertical Tabulation | ||
| 12 | 0C | FF | Form Feed | ||
| 13 | 0D | CR | Carriage Return | ||
| 14 | 0E | SO | Shift Out | ||
| 15 | 0F | SI | Shift In | ||
| 16 | 10 | DLE | Data Link Escape | ||
| 17 | 11 | DC1 | Device Control One (XON) | ||
| 18 | 12 | DC2 | Device Control Two | ||
| 19 | 13 | DC3 | Device Control Three (XOFF) | ||
| 20 | 14 | DC4 | Device Control Four | ||
| 21 | 15 | NAK | Negative Acknowledge | ||
| 22 | 16 | SYN | Synchronous Idle | ||
| 23 | 17 | ETB | End of Transmission Block | ||
| 24 | 18 | CAN | Cancel | ||
| 25 | 19 | EM | End of medium | ||
| 26 | 1A | SUB | Substitute | ||
| 27 | 1B | ESC | Escape | ||
| 28 | 1C | FS | File Separator | ||
| 29 | 1D | GS | Group Separator | ||
| 30 | 1E | RS | Record Separator | ||
| 31 | 1F | US | Unit Separator | ||
| 127 | 7F | DEL | Delete |
References
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