The first part is simple. Use your mouse to change to Hebrew mode. In Hebrew mode the unshift keyboard has all of the old Hebrew typewriter keys. If you are typing Hebrew without vowels, this is the easiest way to go. To get the special Yiddish vav-vav, vav-yud, yud-yud keys, or the Euro symbol, Israeli New Shekel symbol, or the rafe the bar that goes on top of the beth and peh in Yiddish , you need to hold down the right-hand ALT key called, in technical literature, the AltGr key.
The fun begins when you need vowels. There are not composite characters for the Yiddish aleph-pasakh or aleph-kamats, so even for Yiddish, and certainly for most songs, poetry, or any Hebrew with vowels, life is slightly more complicated. It is hard to explain, awkward to use, but your fingers will ge the hang of it with a little practice. Mark David has done a layout chart for Macintosh Hebrew at www.
There are several other keyboards layouts and proposed keyboard layouts, as well. I haven't worked with Hebrew on the Mac since System 7. I'm looking forward to doing so soon. I haven't worked with Linux Hebrew, but this page, by the Israeli Linux users Group, looks promising: www.
The real issue, of course, comes down to Hebrew support within a specific Windowing or terminal environment. All rights reserved. Last revised Nov 27, In Hebrew mode the unshift keyboard has all of the old Hebrew typewriter keys. If you are typing Hebrew without vowels, this is the easiest way to go. To get the special Yiddish vav-vav, vav-yud, yud-yud keys, or the Euro symbol, Israeli New Shekel symbol, or the rafe the bar that goes on top of the beth and peh in Yiddish , you need to hold Missing: rockbox.
Hebrew keyboard is the easiest keyboard to write in Hebrew language. Hebrew keyboard for all of us who love Hebrew language. Very pleased. You just saved me a lot of time. Thank you so much Kazark. Your he-kbd is a great help after I have searched many other options on the internet. Steven, I used this method very successfully on Ubuntu However, when I upgraded to I tried a number of things, but the only thing that worked in the end was to open the original he-kbd.
At that point, it worked. I did a vimdiff on the original and your files, and could not see anything that would cause a problem, so I do not know what the issue was. Perhaps it was localized to something in my setup. This looks very nice but I can't get a working copy of he-kbd. The www. Would you be willing to find another way to post that file? Brianp, Do you have a Hebrew font installed on your linux machine? I think if you don't have a font file, then your editor might not know how to read the Hebrew in the.
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