Hebrew text entry gizmo

[lethargic_man]

At home, when I'm writing a blog post (or anything else) with Hebrew in, it's quite convenient; I have Emacs ready to hand with the Hebrew mode I made for it. At work, it's rather less convenient; and anywhere else, it's downright inconvenient: I have to fire up Word, and, using "Insert symbol", insert the characters one at a time, taking several mouse clicks to do each.

Fed up with this, I have made myself a little web-based Hebrew text entry gizmo, and offer it up here because I think it might be of use to other readers of this journal.

Note that this does not utilise the standard Hebrew keyboard layout; it's intended for (people like) myself, who do not know the standard Hebrew keyboard layout, and want a layout in which, as much as possible, Hebrew letters are generated by their QWERTY equivalents.

Because I wrote this primarily for myself, it's also not been tested other than on Firefox 1.5 on Linux and Windows, and IE 6 on Windows. If people have issues with it on other browsers, let me know (though I do not promise to necessarily do anything about it).

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I don't get the window.handleEvent stuff; might be something fixed between versions.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Do you get the extraneous Latin characters appearing after every Hebrew one?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I did when I replaced "char", yes.