װיקיװערטערבוך:Writing an article

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Short guide to typing Yiddish with a Windows hebrew keyboard, a/k/a survival yiddish keyboard entry. This is specific to the Microsoft Windows Hebrew keyboard that is supplied with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This just shows how to type the special character combinations used in Yiddish, not basic Hebrew letters.

Note: the AltGr key is generally the key labelled "Alt" on the right side of the space bar. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key


veys: beys, AltGr+Hyphen


kof: khof, AltGr+3


pey: fey, Shift+Equals-Sign


fey: pey, AltGr+Hyphen


tsvey-yudn: AltGr+h


pasekh, e.g., after alef: alef, Caps-lock-on, shift+7, Caps-lock-off


komets, e.g., after alef: alef, Caps-lock-on, shift+8, Caps-lock-off


pasekh-tsvey-yudn: tsvey-yudn, pasekh


tsvey-vovn: AltGr+u


vov-yud: AltGr+j