UYIP with Unicode: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing with Unicode

Sites with Yiddish in Unicode

• Nign (First-ever Unicode Yiddish HTML page on the web)
• Yidishe Shraybmashinke
• Der Bavebter Yid
• Yiddish at Berkeley
• Forverts (Yiddish Forward)
• Lebns Fragn (Yiddish-language Socialist periodical)
• League for Yiddish (Organization that promotes Yiddish)

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

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