Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet

This article contains a list of encodings to Unicode Hebrew characters and the numeric entities for use in HTML. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are encoded in Unicode in Unicode Hebrew block that follows in the order for most of ISO 8859-8. Five Hebrew letters that take a different form at the end of a word as usual, are in this form separately coded. Vowels and other diacritical marks are available as combining characters. The correct positioning should be carried out according to the existing rules of typography and may be affected by a combining grapheme joiner. Some characters that are composed of a Hebrew letter and vowel signs are, Alphabetic Presentation Forms separately encoded in Unicode block, especially the letters of the Yiddish. This block also contains some ligatures and display variations Hebrew letters. These characters, however, are intended only for compatibility with other encodings and should not be used otherwise. As mathematical symbols in Unicode, the first four letters in the Unicode block characters like symbols are present. These are not arranged in the use of the Unicode bidi algorithm as Hebrew letters from right to left, but are considered Clockwise characters.

List of letters

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• Julie D. Allen et al.: The Unicode Standard. Version 6.2 - Core Specification. The Unicode Consortium, Mountain View, CA, in 2012. ISBN 978-1-936213-07-8. Chapter 8.1: Hebrew. (on-line PDF)

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