Andrew Dunbar sent a list of Hebrew characters supported in Unicode but not
necessarily by various other encodings.
The following characters are quite important to Yiddish, although in a pinch
there are workarounds for all but the first:
HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH YOD YOD PATAH
HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV
HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD
HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD
The characters marked as HEBREW ACCENT are cantillation marks, only
of importance for proper typesetting the Bible.
HEBREW ACCENT DARGA
HEBREW ACCENT DEHI
HEBREW ACCENT ETNAHTA
HEBREW ACCENT GERESH
HEBREW ACCENT GERESH MUQDAM
HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM
HEBREW ACCENT ILUY
HEBREW ACCENT MAHAPAKH
HEBREW ACCENT MERKHA
HEBREW ACCENT MERKHA KEFULA
HEBREW ACCENT MUNAH
HEBREW ACCENT OLE
HEBREW ACCENT PASHTA
HEBREW ACCENT PAZER
HEBREW ACCENT QADMA
HEBREW ACCENT QARNEY PARA
HEBREW ACCENT REVIA
HEBREW ACCENT SEGOL
HEBREW ACCENT SHALSHELET
HEBREW ACCENT TELISHA GEDOLA
HEBREW ACCENT TELISHA QETANA
HEBREW ACCENT TEVIR
HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA
HEBREW ACCENT YERAH BEN YOMO
HEBREW ACCENT YETIV
HEBREW ACCENT ZAQEF GADOL
HEBREW ACCENT ZAQEF QATAN
HEBREW ACCENT ZARQA
HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR
The following are pre-composed letters that can also be achieved with
postcomposition. Sometimes you get a better visual appearance by precomposing.
HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH MAPIQ
HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH
HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS
HEBREW LETTER BET WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER BET WITH RAFE
HEBREW LETTER DALET WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER GIMEL WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER HE WITH MAPIQ
HEBREW LETTER KAF WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER KAF WITH RAFE
HEBREW LETTER LAMED WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER MEM WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER NUN WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER PE WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER PE WITH RAFE
HEBREW LETTER QOF WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER RESH WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH AND SHIN DOT
HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH DAGESH AND SIN DOT
HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH SHIN DOT
HEBREW LETTER SHIN WITH SIN DOT
HEBREW LETTER TAV WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER TET WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER TSADI WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH HOLAM
HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH DAGESH
HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ
HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN WITH DAGESH
The following are only important if you are typesetting the Bible and trying to
imitate handwriting.
HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF
HEBREW LETTER WIDE DALET
HEBREW LETTER WIDE FINAL MEM
HEBREW LETTER WIDE HE
HEBREW LETTER WIDE KAF
HEBREW LETTER WIDE LAMED
HEBREW LETTER WIDE RESH
HEBREW LETTER WIDE TAV
The following are essential for Hebrew texts for children, for Bibles, and for
occasional words in ordinary Hebrew. The first group is essential for
Yiddish as well.
HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ
HEBREW POINT HIRIQ
HEBREW POINT PATAH
HEBREW POINT QAMATS
HEBREW POINT RAFE
HEBREW POINT SIN DOT
HEBREW POINT HATAF PATAH
HEBREW POINT HATAF QAMATS
HEBREW POINT HATAF SEGOL
HEBREW POINT HOLAM
HEBREW POINT METEG
HEBREW POINT QUBUTS
HEBREW POINT SEGOL
HEBREW POINT SHEVA
HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT
HEBREW POINT TSERE
I don't know how important the following are.
HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE AYIN
HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE PLUS SIGN
HEBREW LETTER TAV
HEBREW LIGATURE ALEF LAMED
HEBREW MARK MASORA CIRCLE
HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT
HEBREW POINT JUDEO-SPANISH VARIKA
HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH
HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM
HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF
HEBREW PUNCTUATION PASEQ
HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ
Raphael Finkel
