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The Hebrew language is written right to left (RTL), much like Arabic and Farsi, requiring special handling when mixing Roman numerals and Latin characters in order to maintain correct flow.

Questions in this tag must be posted in English, but examples can be given using Hebrew characters when relevant
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Hebrew is a language of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that, in modern and ancient forms, is an official language of Israel and a language in which much of the scriptures of Jews and Christians are written in. Hebrew is also a 22 letter consonant-only alphabet used for the Hebrew and other languages.

The Hebrew language is written right to left (RTL), much like Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Yiddish, requiring special handling when mixing Roman numerals and Latin characters in order to maintain correct flow. Hebrew also supports accents (Te'amim) and points (Nikkud) that may be displayed differently based on the preceding letters.

In UTF-8, Hebrew characters begin at U+0591 and end at U+05F4 (including punctuation and Yiddish).

In ASCII Hebrew can use several codepages, with the most common being cp1255 (windows-1255), followed by cp8859-8 and, less common, cp862.

Tag Usage

Use this tag for:

  • Any question relating to technical uses for Hebrew in computerized systems, conversions of different charsets, inputting, outputting, processing, or displaying Hebrew characters, and the like.
    • Users should also consider looking into other localization tags such as [rtl] and [utf-8] as many Hebrew problems are not unique to Hebrew but are localization related in general.

Do not use this tag for:

  • General questions about the Hebrew language or alphabet (off-topic).
  • Questions about learning or studying Hebrew (off-topic).
  • Requests for translation assistance between Hebrew and any other language (off-topic).
  • Questions written in Hebrew (Stack Overflow requires that questions be written in English).
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HTML5 Canvas fillText with Right-to-Left string

I am trying to use the fillText() method on an HTML5 Canvas' 2d Context to draw a string written in Arabic. It works perfectly, until I put a punctuation mark at the end of the string. Then the punctuation mark appears on the wrong side of the…
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How to tell if a string contains characters in Hebrew using PHP?

Trying to figure out how to tell whether a string contains any characters in Hebrew with no luck. How can this be done?
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Android setting with TextView for Hebrew text?

I am setting text in TextView from string resource. Normally, Hebrew works in Right-To-Left format. When I set a text, it sets the text Right-To-Left format in LG, Samsung, Sony Phone but in HTC it does not work. It works in Left-To-Right format in…
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C# Encoding.Converting Latin to Hebrew

I'm trying to fetch and parse an online excel document which is written in hebrew but unfortunately in a non-hebrew encoding. As an example I'm trying to convert the following string: "âìéåï_1", which serves as the 1st sheet name to hebrew using C#…
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The token of raku grammar doesn't hit the first occurences of a document but hits the similar following occurences

I want to process the whole Tanach file, in Hebrew. For that, I chose the language Raku because some of its features (grammar and unicode support). So, I defined some tokens to select the relevant data. grammar HEB { token TOP…
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hebrew appears as question marks in netbeans

I am using netbeans 6.1 on 2 computers. on one of them the program: public static void main(String argv[]) { System.out.println("שלום"); } prints normally, and the on the other question marks. what can be the difference between the 2…
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HTML CSS Styling for Hebrew Niqqud

I'd like to style niqqud characters inside html differently than the letter. Suppose I'd like to have Hebrew letter Bet black while Dagesh in it green. How can this be made in html+css? This doesn't do the task:
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Using hebrew with the android emulator

I want to be able to run a "Hello World" application on my android emulator in hebrew How can I do that? is it supported? thanks
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Calculating Hebrew date in Python

I'd like to calculate Hebrew dates (primarily the current Hebrew date) in Python. Which library is mature, easy to use, and documented? I note these. There may be others. Python Date Utilities Library as discussed here Calendrical libhdate Python…
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How can I detect a palindrome in Hebrew?

I am writing a series of tests for a palindrome solver. I came across the interesting palindrome in Hebrew: טעם לפת תפל מעט Which is a palindrome, but the letter Mem has both a regular form (מ) and a "final form" (ם), how it appears as the last…
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Right to Left UI in iPhone (Hebrew)

I'm struggling in creating a RTL UI in iPhone application. The framework doesn't seem to have any support for RTL languages. The only thing is the alignment inside labels, which is nice, but it conflicts with other controls behaviour. The question…
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Is there any way to write Hebrew in the Windows Console?

Is there any way to write Hebrew in the Windows Console? I tried the following: Console.OutputEncoding = new UTF8Encoding(false); Console.WriteLine("\u05D0\u05D1"); Console.ReadLine(); but instead of "אב" it writes some other Unicode character,…
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Android Hebrew RTL String With Numeric Value Flipped

I would like to display a String with my app name and it's current version. The app name is in hebrew, for some when I combine hebrew text with numeric value, the numeric value is flipped. versionTextView.setText("אפליקציה גרסה…
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Android Hebrew (RTL) Integration

I'm working on a relatively simple Android app. I want it to have an English version as well as a Hebrew version. (RTL Right to Left Alignment) I have manually change the alignment to right in layout xml file. When a sentence contains digits (in the…
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jQuery doesn't display Hebrew

I am using jQuery to validate a form. I have at my html's head: I have utf-8 on my scripts: