Capital English Letters While Holding Shift In Hebrew

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Capital English Letters While Holding Shift In Hebrew

Hi,

If typing in English, you can hold the Shift button and then write capital English letters. On Windows, this works the same in Hebrew - you hold the Shift button and then you can type English capital letters.

On Mac OS X (I'm using version 10.9.4) this is not working, and instead of capital English letters I get some wired things: "לֹ„שׁ„שׁ„„שׁ" (these are just some of the keys - most will do nothing).

Is it possible to make this work as in Windows (and English on Mac)?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 16, 2014 6:01 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 16, 2014 8:02 AM in response to DubelBoom

Just go to system prefs/keyboard/input sources and use the plus and add buttons to activate the Hebrew PC keyboard layout, then select that one in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen (has a little pc at bottom).

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odedfos

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Apr 2, 2017 12:04 AM in response to DubelBoom

If you happen to be running macOS Sierra, make sure you are using as input source - "Hebrew - PC" and not "Hebrew" or "Hebrew - QWERTY". It is the only one for which the shift button maps to english chars.

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DubelBoom Author

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Aug 16, 2014 11:55 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks that worked!

I got a minor problem not having ';' icon from the left of the '1', but I got that fixed using Ukulele. Not I have another very minor problem - there is no Israel flag for the layout (yes this bothers me haha), does anyone knows where in the system are these icons located, if at all? I've tried searching in the System/Library and /Library folders, but couldn't find it.

Thanks!

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 16, 2014 12:05 PM in response to DubelBoom

You can't access the stuff Apple supplies, but I think Ukelele gives you the flag .icns files. You just put them the same place you put your modified layout. Look for a folder called System Keyboards/Unicode that comes with the app. Or email me and I can send it to you (tom at bluesky dot org).

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Tom Gewecke

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Sep 6, 2014 3:26 AM in response to matanram

matanram wrote:

hey,

i didn't quite understand the instructions on how to make it work. I'm in the "input source" tab - where do i go from there?

If you are running 10.9 Mavericks, you use the plus and add buttons to activate the Hebrew PC layout, then select that layout in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen.

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DubelBoom Author

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Aug 16, 2014 12:11 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

This one does the job, thanks!!

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matanram

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Sep 6, 2014 3:22 AM in response to DubelBoom

hey,

i didn't quite understand the instructions on how to make it work. I'm in the "input source" tab - where do i go from there?

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