Recently in Hebrew Category
The tutorial technically Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-Left Scripts, but it actually provides an excellent explanation of how Unicode specifies text direction and how you need to encode both RTL (right to left) and LTR (left to right) in a Middle Eastern text which includes European words as BIDI (Bidirectional).
I just discovered a new large True-Type Unicode font called Quivira from a German developer. It is based somewhat on Garamond, and includes a lot of useful characters such as Latin, Phonetics, Math, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Cherokee, Currency, Box/Geometrics/Arrows, Old Italic, Gothic, Braille, Armenian, Hebrew and so forth.
The site is in German, but there's enough information for a user to get by using "Internet German", and as the author says "Quivira ist Freeware."
Download: http://www.grinningbit.com/quivira.php
List of Characters (PDF): http://www.grinningbit.com/files/Quivira.pdf
If you are working with Hebrew, a helpful list may be the Hebrew Computing User Group on Yahoo. You have to join the list to see the messages, but they do cover a wide range of topics.
For other resources, you can check the Penn State Hebrew Computing Information Page (which, by pure coincedence, I edit).
Recent Comments