Just wanted to close the loop on this and let you know that I published a
CPAN module for this extended DOS encoding of Hebrew (including vowels
and dageshim). Here it is:<br><br><a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Etzadikv/Encode-DosHebrew-0.51/lib/Encode/DosHebrew.pm" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/~tzadikv/Encode-DosHebrew-0.51/lib/Encode/DosHebrew.pm</a><br>
<br>The encoding table itself is at the end of the code in hex. The
first character of each line is the 8-bit DOS Hebrew encoding. The rest
of the characters are the unicode equivalent.<br><br>Example:<br><pre><b>e1 d1 bc</b> beis<br><br></pre>means that the byte <b>e1</b> (hex) in the DOS encoding converts to the 2 bytes: 05<b>d1</b> 05<b>bc</b>
in unicode (the leading unicode "05" for Hebrew is inferred)/ The last
part is just a comment that this represents a beis with a dagesh (oops
sorry for the ashkenaz transliteration)<br>
<br>I am still looking for more information about the origin of this
encoding and what programs used it, so I can add that to the
documentation.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Tzadik</font>