UYIP with Unicode
UYIP with Unicode: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing with Unicode
Sites with Yiddish in Unicode
- Nign (First-ever Unicode Yiddish HTML page on the web, actually on two of its subpages: (1) in modern UTF-8 encoding, and (2) in obsolete UCS2 encoding)
- Yidishe Shraybmashinke
- Der Bavebter Yid
- Forverts (Yiddish Forward)
- Lebns Fragn (Yiddish-language Socialist periodical)
- League for Yiddish (Organization that promotes Yiddish)
- Yugntruf
- Natsyonaler Instants far Yidisher Kultur
- Yidish Branzhe
- Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
- Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary
- Yiddish Book Center’s Full-Text Search (currently in beta)
Information about Unicode for Yiddish
- Unicode Hebrew Code Block (PDF)
- Unicode Alphabetic Presentation Forms (PDF), including forms used in standard Yiddish orthography. Note 1: these forms are generally to be used for compatibility; modern applications should use composition of characters from the Hebrew code block. Note 2: this now includes U+FB1D, Hebrew Letter Yod with Hiriq, which was added as part of Unicode 3.0, and which represents a character combination used in Yiddish. Note 3: there now exists an important Corrigendum #2: Yod with Hiriq Normalization, effective for Unicode 3.1, basically to deal the character U+FB1D HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ being mistakenly omitted from the so-called “Composition Exclusions table”, i.e., such that it was not handled the same as all the other precomposed Hebrew characters.
- Hebrew character compositions for Yiddish
- Hebrew digraph characters for Yiddish
- UTR #8: Unicode 2.1, Corrigenda to Version 2.0, including a corrected image for U+05F1: Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod, and updates to bidirectional text handling.
- Corrections to Unicode 2.0, Chapter 3.11: Bidirectional Behavior
- Draft UTR #9:Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, the revision of the BIDI algorithm which is to be incorporated into Version 3.0 of The Unicode Standard
- Windows Hebrew Code Page 1255, mapping table relating CP1255 to Unicode
- MacOS Hebrew Character Set, mapping table relating MacOS Hebrew to Unicode
General Information about Unicode and Related Standards
- Unicode 4.0 / ISO 10646 Plane 0, by Frank da Cruz, is useful. It’s a web page displaying every basic Unicode character and its code and name. (There’s also a link there for some useful code for creating this web page.)
- Unicode and Multilingual Web Browsers - a useful guide by Alan Wood
- Unicode, Inc., the home page
- Unicode UTF FAQ
- RFC 2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
- Unicode Technical Reports - fuller list of technical reports by Unicode, Inc.
- Internationalized Domain Name (Wikipedia article)
- IETF: Internationalized Email