Hebrew character picker 10

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Quick start: (You must have JavaScript enabled.) Choose a view (see below). Click on characters/shapes to insert text into the output field or use your keyboard for Latin characters, delete, etc. You can also add codepoints and escapes via the "Add codepoint" field (hit return to add to the output field).; Then cut & paste the result to your document, or use the tabs to get further information about the characters. You can also paste text into the output field to get information about it. Use the yellow box to set preferences or search (regular expressions allowed - for example, to find the letter GA, enter \bga\b, or the short form :ga:).

About the chart: Includes all the characters in the Unicode Hebrew block as of Unicode 5.2.; All text is output in Unicode normalisation form NFC by default. You can change to NFD or no normalisation by clicking on the buttons in the yellow area. Note that normalization only takes place when you click on a character - text pasted into the box won't be normalised until you click on another character above, or click on a button in the yellow area. (Note: normalization is turned off for Han characters in this application.)
Alternative views: The following alternative views are available by clicking just below the page title. You can start up directly in one of the views by appending the following to your URI: ?view=, followed by one of, respectively, default, shape or fontgrid.; Default This view is likely to be more useful to people who are somewhat familiar with the alphabet and characters of Hebrew. Consonants are to the left, with punctuation below. To their right are all the combining characters. There are also a number of Unicode control characters for managing direction of text. (Note that for HTML you should use markup, where possible, rather than RLE, LRE, PDF, RLO and LRO.); Shape This view is purely based around shape, and is therefore good when you don't know the script well at all, or for shapes you don't know. Characters are grouped and ordered by visual similarity.; Each orange key near the top of the page represents a significant part of the shape of two or more characters; as you mouse over the keys, characters and combinations of characters that incorporate that shape are displayed below. Click on these characters to add them to the output. Within a group I attempted to put easily confusable characters close to each other.; The shapes below the grey line are a mixed bag of characters that didn't fit elsewhere.; Since shapes can vary sufficiently between fonts to cause doubt for a person not familiar with Hebrew, I added extra glyphs in different fonts to the right of the list.; The shapes for combining characters at the right side are repeated. The first two shapes reveal characters that are commonly used in modern Isreali Hebrew. The last two contain all combining characters. This just makes lookup easier if you know you are likely to just be using common modern characters.; A small orange plus sign to the right of a shape indicates that you will find similar shapes after the large plus sign to the right of the current line. These characters may cause confusion because they share elements, or because their shape may be similar, though not quite the same.; Transcription I use this for typing in text for which I have a transcription, or for creating phonemic transcriptions.; The large characters on a grey background represent characters for Standard Israeli transcriptions by the Academy of the Hebrew Language (as described here). To type Hebrew text starting from a transcription, click on these characters. If there is only one Hebrew character corresponding to the transcription letter, it is inserted directly into the output field. If there are multiple alternatives, these are presented to you in a selection list: click on the Hebrew character you need in the selection list and it is added to the output.; Each Hebrew character is associated with a phonetic symbol (a Latin/IPA symbol on white background to its left in the selection lists). If there is more than one possible phonic representation you will see the selection list divided appropriately. As you select characters, the phonetic symbol to its left is stored. If you click on the Phonemes button, below the output area, these are all added to the output. This provides a quick way of generating a phonetic transcription from a Latin transcription. In some cases a Hebrew character is repeated within the same selection list because it has more than one possible phonetic equivalent - in such cases, choose the right one if you want to generate this phonetic transcription.; The vowels to the left produce no output, but allow you to capture phones for creating a phonemic transcription. Vowels in the middle list non-pointed characters (matres lectionis). These do not necessarily represent a vowel sound themselves (eg. alef), but exposing them in this way makes it easier to obtain phonemic transcriptions. The vowels to the right are for creating pointed text. Often these will need to be used with alef, he or ayin - in which case, look for those characters under 'silent' in the list of consonants above.; Just above the output area there is a line of Latin characters. This represents the union of all transcription and phonetic characters, and is provided in case you wish to just type in a transcription directly.; For less common characters, switch to the Alphabetic view.; As you mouse over the Latin characters on the grey background, the corresponding Hebrew characters are also displayed near the top of the page. This is to aid in searching, but you can also select characters from there.; Font grid Shows characters in Unicode order, using whatever font is specified in the Font list or Custom font input fields. This allows comparison of fonts (especially useful in IE, which shows if a glyph is missing from a font).
Other commands: Phonemes While you click on Hebrew characters in the Transcription view, the picker automatically records in a buffer the associated phonemic character to the left of each character you click on. Clicking on the Phonemes tab will dump those characters into the output area at the current cursor position, and clear the buffer. It is quite basic (for example, it doesn't take into account use of the delete key), but is offered as a way of speeding up text entry where you want to type both the Hebrew characters and the phonemic transcription.; As mentioned above, graphics are provided for unwritten vowel sounds to help produce these transcriptions. They produce no output in Hebrew script, but the phonemic value is stored in the buffer.; Other info For further information about features of the tool or user interface, see How to use..
Useful URIs: Downloadable TrueType and OpenType fonts: Wazu Japan, Alan Wood; Hebrew script description in Wikipedia; Hebrew in UniView; Other pickers
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