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Understanding Yiddish Information Processing

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Guides

• A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet - by Shoshke-Reyzl Juni
• Yiddish on Unix Guide - by Raphael Finkel
• Text Editing in Hebrew and Jewish Languages on Windows - for Yiddish and other Jewish languages - by Tsuguya Sasaki
• UYIP with Unicode - links to Yiddish documents in Unicode, and Unicode-related info and links - by Mark David

General Yiddish Information Processing Resources

• A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet, compiled by Susannah Juni.
  
  
• UYIP with Unicode, where Unicode Yiddish documents are catalogued, and where information about Unicode, especially as it relates to Yiddish, is available. Visit http://www.uyip.org/unicode/.
  
  
• Other Mailing Lists of Interest:
  
  
  
  • Mendele: Yiddish Literature and Language: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/
  
  
  
• RFC 1555: Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages describes a protocol for transmitting Hebrew in the ISO-8859-8 character set. This encoding can only contain Hebrew letters without vowels, and therefore does not support Yiddish.
  
  
• Ulrich Greve's Free Downloadable Yiddish Software site has great, original software with the Yiddish language featured front and center. Examples: a Yiddish OCR program, a Yiddish-English Dictionary program, etc.
  
  
• Days and Months (Yiddish Localization Information)
  
  
• Phonetic Yiddish Keyboards (QWERTY-based): http://www.shoshke.net/uyip/keyboards.htm. Join the UYIP mailing list for a discussion of QUERTY-based phonetic keyboard designs for Yiddish information processing.
  
  
• Hebrew Keyboards: http://www.uyip.org/keyboards.html. Join the UYIP mailing list for a discussion of keyboard designs for Yiddish information processing.
  
  
• Raphael Finkel's Yidishe Shraybmashinke (Yiddish Typewriter), a tool for Composing Yiddish through the Web, and also for translating between various character sets, document formats, and encodings, at http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.html . It lets you compose a page of Yiddish text, typed in transliteration, in a number of formats, including images (GIF's) that you can immediately see. It also can produce Unicode documents in Windows Hebrew Code Page 1255, MacOS Hebrew, Unicode UCS-2 and UTF-8 formats, and PostScript files. A heymish Yiddish font is also provided. A truly wonderful resource. Thank you Raphael! Lang lebn zolt ir, Rafoyl!
  
  
• Unicode Hebrew Code Block (PDF)
  
  
• Unicode Alphabetic Presentation Forms (PDF), including forms used in standard Yiddish orthography. (Note: these forms are generally to be used for compatibility; modern applications should use composition of characters from the Hebrew code block.)
  
  
• The combinations of Unicode characters needed for Yiddish according to its Standardized Orthography are shown here: http://www.uyip.org/combinations.html .
  
  
• The Unicode characters for Hebrew digraphs needed for Yiddish are shown here: http://www.uyip.org/digraphs.html
  
  
• (The rest of the characters needed for Yiddish are just the 22 Hebrew letters, and 5 final letter forms. Not shown, but available from many sources; see further below for the Unicode table.)
  
  
• A general guide to Hebrew information processing, primarily intended for those dealing with the Hebrew language, is at: http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/
  
  
• Nir Dagen's Review of Hebrew-language Support in Browsers.
  
  
• More resources to come; stay tuned....

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