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Typing in Yiddish

73 pointsby gruseomabout 6 years ago

4 comments

jsharfabout 6 years ago
It&#x27;s interesting to see that the old yiddish typewriter layout is actually not identical to the modern hebrew typing layout.<p>While they&#x27;re almost identical, about 5 letters have been swapped: ח, א, ס, ף, and ב is just removed from where it is in the modern layout, and moved to the top right, in a location that modern keyboard&#x27;s don&#x27;t have (to the right of where P would be, in QWERTY).
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nannaabout 6 years ago
Oh my. I&#x27;m the maker of the only-cross platform Yiddish keyboard (well, macOS, Windows, Linux). I&#x27;ve made variants of QWERTY and the Israeli keyboard and they&#x27;ve been well received but life got in the way, they&#x27;ve suffered from bitrot, I had to take my site down,[0] people have asked me to put it back up and its been nagging me on my to do list for ages.<p>This post has given me resolve to sort it out today!<p>Also, I&#x27;d never heard of this Jonas and I&#x27;m going to add his variant too.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20141218093006&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shretl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20141218093006&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shretl.org...</a>
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metaprotocolabout 6 years ago
Assimil have an excellent Yiddish language course.<p>I would like to one day, be able to read Isaac Bashevis Singer in the original.
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ngcc_hkabout 6 years ago
It is a manual for basically one or max two writer of the author! Private language we may argue but we know private typewriter existed.