» A particular font can choose whether or not to actually implement an particular code point. The set of Hebrew characters has been assigned code points in the range extending from X'0590' to X'05FF'. For example, the Hebrew "aleph" character is represented by code point X'05D0' (this is represented here as a hexadecimal number). Blocks of related code points are grouped together in "ranges". This assignment is known as a "code point".
» Characters in arbitrary languages (e.g., English, Hebrew, Hungarian) are assigned a unique numeric representation in the Unicode system. You will want to use only Unicode fonts for your English/Hebrew documents. The rest of this page describes these pieces in greater detail.įonts Right-to-left text entry, on Macs and PCs Text processing applications Transliterating Semitic texts (and Unicode) FontsĪ web search will locate a number of Hebrew (and Arabic) fonts available on the Internet, some free and some for a fee. There are three pieces to the combined English and Hebrew text entry pie: (1) fonts, (2) right-to-left-text entry, and (3) text processing applications that support typing in multiple languages. It includes a section on tools for transliterating Semitic texts. This web page will hopefully provide a "fast path" for members of the NEJS community to quickly get up and running doing combined English and Hebrew text entry. A survey conducted in the Winter of 2005 revealed a somewhat bewildering set of potential choices for fonts and related tools. A Google search such as "Hebrew font" will return a daunting number of search results, without even necessarily addressing text processing applications and right-to-left text entry. Semitic Scripts in English DocumentsStudents of the Hebrew Bible (and other disciplines which have Hebrew and other Semitic languages as a core element of the discipline) are often faced with the need to include non-Western fonts in written documents, such as homework assignments and research papers.
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