Several of my Yiddish classmates found the Yiddish keyboard offered by Lexilogos helpful. Essentially, the Yiddish alef-beys is laid out on the screen and you click on a letter to type it. Once you’re done, you can copy and paste what you’ve typed into a document or website. There’s also a link on the page to Lexilogos’s Yiddish dictionary. Here is the site: http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/yiddish.htm
If you know of other Yiddish keyboard websites or programs that haven’t been mentioned, please share them in this thread.
Makhno
Member since:Nov 2013
Posts: 1
A Yiddish spellchecker for Open Office or Libre Office is helpful. Like that one: http://jidysz.net/en/downloads/yiddish-ooo-spellchecker
Rmeller
Member since:Feb 2014
Posts: 1
The Apple version of Word has a Hebrew QWERTY keyboard which is easy to use/learn to use, and can be used for Yiddish.
Moyshe Lezer
Member since:Nov 2014
Posts: 5
Try: http://shretl.org/.
Once you have installed Shretl you just type the Roman letter that sounds like the Yiddish letter you want, eg. 'p' for a pey. Some otherwise unused keys are specifically dedicated - e.g, 'x' to tsadik and 'w' to shin. Hold the shift button down as you type the Roman letter, if you want a final form Yiddish letter. Typing a 'y' gives you pasekh tsey yudn. Hold the left alt button down and press shift to toggle between the Roman and the Yiddish alphabets. It's a mekhayeh!