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Updated Tue 15 Oct 2017 • tags hebrew, scriptnotes
This page provides information about the characteristics of the script used to write Hebrew, as described in the Writing Systems Tutorial. It is not intended to be exhaustively scientific – merely to give a basic idea of the essential features of the script.
Click on the orange text in the table to the right to see more details about that aspect of the script. Click on red text in the main sample area to see a list of code points for that text.
כאשר העולם רוצה לדבר, הוא מדבר ב־Unicode. הירשמו כעת לכנס Unicode הבינלאומי העשירי, שייערך בין התאריכים 12־10 במרץ 1997, בְּמָיְינְץ שבגרמניה. בכנס ישתתפו מומחים מכל ענפי התעשייה בנושא האינטרנט העולמי וה־Unicode, בהתאמה לשוק הבינלאומי והמקומי, ביישום Unicode במערכות הפעלה וביישומים, בגופנים, בפריסת טקסט ובמחשוב רב־לשוני.
Script name | Hebrew |
---|---|
Script type | abjad |
Number of characters | 87 |
Case distinction | no |
Combining characters | 51 |
Multiple combining characters | no |
Context-based positioning | no |
Contextual shaping | no |
Cursive script | no |
Many more glyphs than characters? | no |
Text direction | rtl |
Baseline | mid |
Space is word separator | yes |
Wraps at | word |
Justification | spaces |
Native digits? | no |
Click on the orange text in the features list (right column) to see examples and notes. Click on highlighted text in the Sample section to see the characters. Click on the vertical blue bar, bottom right, to change font settings.