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).
