(define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
+;; These are for Explicit and Implicit directionality information, as
+;; defined in RFC 1556. We don't yet support directional information
+;; in bidi languages, so these aliases are a lie, especially as far as
+;; iso-8859-8-e is concerned. FIXME.
+(define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-e 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
+(define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-8-i 'hebrew-iso-8bit)
+
(set-language-info-alist
"Hebrew" '((charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
(coding-priority hebrew-iso-8bit)