• Yiddish Kompyuteray  ייִדיש־קאָמפּיוטערײ
    A Users’ Guide to Yiddish on the Internet

    • TEMP Mac Hebrew QWERTY Keyboard for Yiddish

    The following information was graciously supplied by Mark David:

    Below are details of the layouts so you can see how all the letters  are typed. Note that for some characters there are 2 or 3 keyboard assignments (i.e., different options) for the same character or sequence of characters, e.g., pasekh-tsvey-yudn and komets. Also note that, as with the Mac OS “Hebrew” keyboard, there are no dedicated assignments for the so-called Unicode “Yiddish digraphs” (i.e., tsvey vovn and vov-yud) [meaning simply that you have to type each part of these double letters separately], although there is a dedicated assignment for pasekh-tsvey-yudn ײַ, comprising the Unicode characters Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Double Yod and Hebrew Point Patah.

    Mac  OS keyboard name: Hebrew – QWERTY

    Home keys:

    Top row: QWERTYUIOP[]
    פויוטרעשק

    ײַ – pasekh-tsvey-yudn on key cap: ]
    Hebrew Point Rafe (for fey פֿ and veyz בֿ) on key cap:

    middle row: ASDFGHJKL
    לכחהגפדסא

    bottom row: ZXCVBNM
    מנבוצכז

    Base Layout without pressing any modifier keys.

    Option keys:

    Option+4: khirek in khirek-yud יִ
    Option+6: pasekh in pasekh-tsvey-yudn ײַ and pasekh-alef אַ
    Option+7: komets in komets-alef אָ

    Option+A: pasekh in pasekh-tsvey-yudn ײַ and pasekh-alef אַ
    Option+W: sin ‎שׂ
    Option+H: khes ח
    Option+R: komets in komets-alef אָ
    Option+T: komets in komets-alef אָ
    Option+Y: pasekh-tsvey-yudn ײַ
    Option+I: khirek in khirek-yud יִ

    Option+M: shlos-mem ם
    Option+.: Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq in pey פּ, kof כּ, tof תּ, and melupm-vov וּ

    Layout for keys pressed while holding the Option Key

    Shift keys:

    Shift+T: tes ט
    Shift+Y: sof ת
    Shift+U: melupm-vov וּ
    Shift+I: pasekh-tsvey-yudn ײַ
    Shift+P: langer-fey ף

    Shift+A: komets in komets-alef אָ
    Shift+S: shin ש
    Shift+F: langer-pey ף
    Shift+H: khes ח
    Shift+K: langer-khof ך

    Shift+X: langer-khof ך
    Shift+C: langer-tsadi ץ
    Shift+V: beys ב
    Shift+B: Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq in pey פּ, kof כּ, tof תּ, and melupm-vov וּ
    Shift+N: langer-nun ן
    Shift+M: shlos-mem ם

    Layout for keys pressed while holding the Shift Key