Yiddish on the Computer
Summary
Yiddish Word Processing

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The easiest and least costly way to do Yiddish word processing is to prepare your system for Unicode UTF-8. Follow the link for your operating system at A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet for instructions. However, depending on your system's limitations and on your needs, you may wish to use a commercial program instead. For example, if you use Word 95, 98, or ME, your word processing abilities will be rudimentary (although sufficient for most people) without using a commercial program. Remember that if you use a word processor which does not use Unicode UTF-8, you might not be able to easily share your documents electronically with others, and you may not be able to easily paste your text into an email message.

The following chart is merely a brief summary of some word processing programs that can handle Yiddish.

Word Processing Programs
Yiddish Keyboards & Unicode

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Windows:

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Obviously, there are more criteria to consider in choosing a word processing program. There are also more programs which are being explored and/or developed for Yiddish. The above is not a complete list. You can read more about these programs  at UYIP.

• Read about Yiddish Email and Yiddish Web pages.

• Back to A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet for an overview.