diff -up a2ps-4.14/encoding/encoding.map.hebrew a2ps-4.14/encoding/encoding.map
--- a2ps-4.14/encoding/encoding.map.hebrew	2008-04-27 01:50:14.000000000 +0200
+++ a2ps-4.14/encoding/encoding.map	2008-04-27 01:50:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ iso-8859-5		iso5
 iso7			iso7
 iso-8859-7		iso7
 
+iso8			iso8
+iso-8859-8		iso8
+
 # The following lines _are_not_an_error_.
 # This is the right correspondance between ISO-8859 names
 # and the Latin n nick name.
diff -up /dev/null a2ps-4.14/encoding/iso8.edf
--- /dev/null	2008-04-26 20:48:40.298012400 +0200
+++ a2ps-4.14/encoding/iso8.edf	2008-04-27 01:50:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Description of the ISO-8859-8 encoding
+# Copyright (c) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93 Miguel Santana
+# Copyright (c) 1995, 96, 97, 98 Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana
+#
+
+#
+# This file is part of a2ps.
+# 
+# This program 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.
+#
+# This program 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 this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+# the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+#
+
+Name: ISO-8859-8
+
+# This text is reproduced by a courtesy of Roman Czyborra
+# http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
+Documentation
+The Hebrew (8bit) encoding
+EndDocumentation
+
+# This file has been specifically adapted for use with Hebrew Culmus fonts
+
+# If there is an unknown font requested, use Courier
+Default: MiriamMonoCLM-Book
+
+# Automatic spell checking :)
+Substitute: 	Times			DavidCLM-Medium
+Substitute: 	Helvetica		NachlieliCLM-Light
+Substitute: 	Helvetica-Bold		NachlieliCLM-Bold
+Substitute:	Courier			MiriamMonoCLM-Book
+Substitute:	Courier-Bold		MiriamMonoCLM-Bold
+
+Vector:
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+space exclam quotedbl numbersign dollar percent ampersand quotesingle
+parenleft parenright asterisk plus comma hyphen period slash
+zero one two three four five six seven
+eight nine colon semicolon less equal greater question
+at A B C D E F G
+H I J K L M N O
+P Q R S T U V W
+X Y Z bracketleft backslash bracketright asciicircum underscore
+grave a b c d e f g
+h i j k l m n o
+p q r s t u v w
+x y z braceleft bar braceright asciitilde .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+space exclamdown cent sterling currency yen brokenbar section
+dieresis copyright ordfeminine guillemotleft logicalnot hyphen registered macron
+degree plusminus twosuperior threesuperior acute mu paragraph bullet
+cedilla onesuperior ordmasculine guillemotright onequarter onehalf threequarters .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef
+notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef underscoredbl
+afii57664 afii57665 afii57666 afii57667 afii57668 afii57669 afii57670 afii57671
+afii57672 afii57673 afii57674 afii57675 afii57676 afii57677 afii57678 afii57679 
+afii57680 afii57681 afii57682 afii57683 afii57684 afii57685 afii57686 afii57687 
+afii57688 afii57689 afii57690 .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef .notdef 
diff -up a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.am.hebrew a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.am
--- a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.am.hebrew	2008-04-27 01:51:14.000000000 +0200
+++ a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.am	2008-04-27 01:52:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ encodingsdir = $(pkgdatadir)/encoding
 major_encodings = ascii.edf iso1.edf
 minor_encodings = \
 ms-cp1250.edf hp.edf mac.edf ibm-cp437.edf ibm-cp850.edf iso2.edf	\
-iso3.edf iso4.edf iso5.edf iso7.edf iso9.edf iso10.edf iso13.edf	\
+iso3.edf iso4.edf iso5.edf iso7.edf iso8.edf iso9.edf iso10.edf iso13.edf	\
 iso15.edf koi8.edf ms-cp1251.edf euc-jp.edf euc-kr.edf
 
 if EXTENSIONS
diff -up a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.in.hebrew a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.in
--- a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.in.hebrew	2008-04-27 01:50:14.000000000 +0200
+++ a2ps-4.14/encoding/Makefile.in	2008-04-27 01:52:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ encodingsdir = $(pkgdatadir)/encoding
 major_encodings = ascii.edf iso1.edf
 minor_encodings = \
 ms-cp1250.edf hp.edf mac.edf ibm-cp437.edf ibm-cp850.edf iso2.edf	\
-iso3.edf iso4.edf iso5.edf iso7.edf iso9.edf iso10.edf iso13.edf	\
+iso3.edf iso4.edf iso5.edf iso7.edf iso8.edf iso9.edf iso10.edf iso13.edf	\
 iso15.edf koi8.edf ms-cp1251.edf euc-jp.edf euc-kr.edf
 
 @EXTENSIONS_FALSE@encodings_DATA = encoding.map $(major_encodings)