Re: problem with old hebrew latex files in iso 8859-8 coding

["Arne Jørgensen" <arne@arnested.dk>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:06:30 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>> > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:24:55 +0300
>> > Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> > 
>> > > If you uncomment it, Emacs should also automatically recognize that the
>> > > file is using iso-8859-8 and display the file as intended.
>> > 
>> > Good point tried it out. Using texstudio to save it.
>> > 
>> > But still Emacs does not recognize this file as hebrew.
>> 
>> Because latex-inputenc-coding-alist doesn't have a match for 8859-8.
>
> And for a good reason: according to
> http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/base/inputenc.pdf, there's no
> such encoding as 8859-8, the inputenc package doesn't support it.

It might have existed at some point:
https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/inputenx.pdf
(dated 2016/05/16). My old LaTeX installation also has it.

You could try:

  (add-to-list 'latex-inputenc-coding-alist '("8859-8" . iso-8859-8))


/Arne