Use for questions about input, processing, and output in the Hebrew language or alphabet, which is written right-to-left. Support for Hebrew text may require certain configurations or fonts to be enabled.
Questions in this tag must be posted in English, but examples can be given using Hebrew characters when relevant.
!השאלות צריכות להיות באנגלית
Hebrew, in its modern and ancient forms, is a language of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is an official language of Israel. Ancient Hebrew is an Iron Age ancestor of the modern 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 commonly, cp862.
Tag Usage
Use this tag for:
- Non-programming questions relating to using Hebrew in computerized systems, switching charsets, inputting, outputting, storing, or displaying Hebrew characters, and the like.
- Users should also consider looking into other localization tags such as utf-8 as many Hebrew problems are not unique to Hebrew but are localization-related in general.
- Problems with displaying Hebrew characters in operating systems and applications.
- Problems with formatting Hebrew characters in text displays and windows (for example, making them display right-to-left as required by the language).
- Problems with mixing Hebrew and non-Hebrew (for example, Roman) characters.
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).
- Bible study or religious questions (off-topic).
- Programming questions involving the input, processing, or display of Hebrew language text (consider Stack Overflow).
- Questions written in Hebrew (Super User requires that questions be written in English).
