Windows 2000, Windows XP, & Windows NT4 - Hebrew Enabled - Adding Hebrew Language Setting

NOTE: This is an old, outdated web page. Instead, please download the Yiddish Keyboard Layouts Installer and you will have the most current, updated instructions. This page is remaining on the web only temporarily - until the Yiddish Keyboard Layout installer will be available on CD for those who wish to avoid large downloads.

• From your Windows Start button, go to Settings/ Control Panel / Regional Settings (or Regional Options)

• Do not change your Input Locale. Read on:

• Hit the Tab - General

• Go to Language Settings / Hebrew / Apply

• When/if it asks you to insert your Windows 2000 disk for a file - e.g., aronbd.ttf,
  scoll on the Windows disk to I386\Lang\Heb\AHRONB_.TTF and select it. (Notice that the last letter of the file name, before the suffix (file extension) is replaced with an underline mark on the Windows disk, but if you select it, it works. If you can't find the file(s) it asks for, got to Start, Search, Files or Folders and search for the file on your Windows CD, replacing the last characters of the file name with asterisks (wild cards) - e.g., <ahronb*.*>. When you find it, note the path, and then browse to the file within the window for applying the language setting procedure.

• Your computer will restart.

• Go to the Input Locales Tab

  • Go to Installed Input Locales

  • Hit Add

  • Select Hebrew

  • Be sure English (or your primary language) is still checked.

  • Be sure the box is checked to Enable Indicator on Taskbar.

  • Highlight and hit Change Key Sequence

  • Check Enable Key Sequence

  • Here you will have an opportunity to customize hot keys to toggle between languages. If you only type in 2 languages (e.g., English and Yiddish) you may be happy with the default. The default is to simply toggle between the two languages by hitting Shift+Alt together.

  • If you wish, particularly if you use more than 2 languages, you may wish to make a specific hot key sequence for Yiddish (e.g., Left Alt + Shift + 1) and another for say English (e.g., Left Alt + Shift + 0).

  • Windows XP only (Skip this step if you aren't using Win-XP) -- Check the option to "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages."

• You may now OK your way out of these Settings windows. At this point, you should see a little blue box in the lower right-hand corner area of your Windows Taskbar which says EN for English. Try toggling back and forth to HE by hitting Shift+Alt (or whatever hot keys you set up, above, if you changed the default.) Go back to EN. (You've got some kind of Hebrew now, but not Yiddish yet. )

• Return to previous instructions for further steps.

• Back to Windows 2000/XP/NT Yiddish Configuration Notes

• Back to A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet for an overview.