Hebrew keyboard

This gets flipped again by the rendering engine's BiDi mirroring algorithm, resulting in the same visual representation as in Latin keyboards.

Holding down a Shift key (or pressing Caps Lock) in Windows produces the uppercase Latin letter without the need to switch layouts.

It is mostly identical to the SI-1452 layout, with the following changes:[3] The improved mapping is provided by X Keyboard Config since August 2023,[4] but as of November 2023 has no support on MacOS.

There are a variety of layouts that, for the most part, follow the phonology of the letters on a Latin-character keyboard such as the QWERTY or AZERTY.

While uncommon, manufacturers are beginning to produce Hebrew-QWERTY stickers and printed keyboards,[9] useful for those who do not wish to memorize the positions of the Hebrew characters.

Faced with this ambiguity, most manufacturers developed a de facto standard where pressing Shift+upper row key produces the same result as with the US mapping (except the reversal of the open and close brackets).

Most people who needed it would use virtual graphical keyboards available on the World Wide Web, or by methods integrated into particular operating systems.

Notes: SIL International have developed another standard, which is based on Tiro, but adds the Niqqud along the home keys.

For example, it introduced that LRM and RLM invisible control characters (placed on the right and left brackets) to allow better formatting of complex BiDi text.

Linux switched to using SI-1452 once it was released, and in the process deprecated the Lyx layout, which no longer offered any added value.

Because of the differences between left-to-right and right-to-left, some difficulties arise in punctuation marks that are common between the two languages, such as periods and commas.

In Notepad, or any Windows standard text box, it can be done with from the context menu Insert Unicode control character.

In Notepad, or any Windows standard text box, directionality can be changed by right-clicking and selecting Right to left Reading order.

As described above, the Hebrew keyboard setting in Microsoft Windows has a Ctrl+] shortcut to insert the Unicode right-to-left mark.

For Linux, Ubuntu, Debian and ChromeOS, the sequence is Ctrl+⇧ Shift+u followed by the control code value, then space or return.

⇧ Shift+Right Ctrl The symbol "₪", which represents the sheqel sign, can be typed into Windows, Linux and ChromeOS with the Hebrew keyboard layout set, using AltGr+4.

For example, a quotation mark is often used for a gershayim, an apostrophe for a geresh, a hyphen for a maqaf, a comma for a pesiq, and a colon for a sof pasuq, though this depends on the platform.

On iOS devices, the geresh and gershayim are actually part of the system keyboard, albeit as substitutes for the apostrophe and quotation marks.