Draft Proposed Hebrew Keyboard, By Mark David, March 5, 1997
Rationale Summary
Blue: One of the 22+5 (nonfinal+final) Hebrew letters where they appear in the standard Hebrew keyboard position.
Green: One of the 22+5 Hebrew letters appearing in nonstandard Hebrew keyboard position, 11 Hebrew-letter and/or diacritic combinations, or 3 Hebrew-letter digraphs used in standard Yiddish orthography, and able to be encoded in as a single Unicode base character followed by one or more Unicode non-spacing marks (i.e., diacritics).
Cyan: used in keyboard keys assigned to keys just to denote a character relative to the position of a diacritic
Black: any other Hebrew or Non-Hebrew character
Magenta: Any miscellaneous Hebrew-letter combination not covered by one of the colors above.
Here is a variation based on Leybl Bowinik's 3/9/97 email to UYIP:
Rationale for the Variations (Leybl Botwinik)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:27:47 +0200 (IST) From: "Leybl Botwinik (1388)"To: mhd@gensym.com Cc: uyip@world.std.com Subject: yidisher klavyatur tayerer meyer, es gefelt mir ayer forgeshlogener klavyatur (di vos ikh ze oyf ayer UYIP vebplats: http://world.std.com/~yv/uyip/mhd-draft-keyboard.html). ikh volt, ober, gemakht etlekhe kleyntshike enderungen. 1) koydem kol, darf dos heysn "DRAFT Proposed Yiddish-Hebrew Keyboard" oder "Hebrew-Yiddish". 2) di tsvey-yudn (untern "K") zaynen vayt funem muter-yud, volt ikh zey aribergefirt untern "G". azoy arum, zaynen ale yud-kombinatsyes neenter. 3) di vov-yud kombinatsye (untern "E") iz gor vayt, say funem yud, un say funem vov. a gut ort far dem, volt geven untern "G" oder "K". ober dos vendt zikh inem onnemen oder opvarfn mayn 2tn forshlog. 4) dem veys (beys mit a rofe, itst untern "V") volt ikh avekgeshtelt untern "X". dos kumt oys tsum links funem beys. azoy oykh, gefint zikh der fey mit der rofe tsum links funem fey. yednfal, a yesher koyekh. ikh bin, agev, naygerik tsu zen vos Dr. Ben-Levi hot forgeleygt far zayn proyekt. leybl
Here is a prototype keyboard by Glyph Systems, Inc., based on the suggestions of Dr. Michael Ben-Levy (received 2/20/97):
Rationale:
Most recent update: 14 March 1997
Compiled by Mark H. David -- send him errors, ommissions, corrections via email at mhd@world.std.com