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Guides

Typing in Yiddish on a Mac by Itzik Bleaman, with a free Yiddish keyboard! The site has extensive documentation and a new (2017) free-to-download-and-use QUERTY-based phonetic keyboard for Mac OS that supports standard YIVO Yiddish orthography.
A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet - by Shoshke-Reyzl Juni
Yiddish on Unix Guide - by Raphael Finkel
UYIP with Unicode - links to Yiddish documents in Unicode, and Unicode-related info and links - by Mark David

General Yiddish Information Processing Resources

YiddishK - Yiddish/Hebrew Keyboard by Lawrence Kay, is a free iOS keyboard (for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) that supports standard YIVO Yiddish orthography.

RFC 1555: Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages describes a protocol for transmitting Hebrew in the ISO-8859-8 character set. Since it only encodes the 27 Hebrew alphabetic characters and no diacritics nor extended Hebrew characters such as Yiddish digraphs, it has limited use for 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!

Nir Dagen's Review of Hebrew-language Support in Browsers.

More resources to come; stay tuned....