Questions about Hebrew fonts

[kenneth greifer]

Hi. I know nothing about unicode or fonts or anything about this subject or computers at all, but I just wanted to ask people a few questions about computers and Hebrew fonts. I might not even understand your answer, if you choose to answer me, but I still want to ask because this issue has bothered me for many years, and I recently decided to try to look up people to ask about it.

When I use Hebrew fonts in a word processor called Wordperfect, and then I publish to PDF, it often reverses the order of the letters. For some reason, when I change the English font I use, it makes it possible for the Hebrew font to type left to right like English, so I type Hebrew words from the end of the word to the beginning. Even though it is strange, for some reason, the PDF version has the letters in the right order and does not reverse the letters.

When I try to self-publish some of my work on Amazon KDP, which is Kindle, they say that Kindle ebook readers can't handle Hebrew characters. I would like to know if there exists a left to right version of fonts for languages that are written right to left like Hebrew. If there were left to right versions of these fonts, then people could have an easier time mixing Hebrew and English or other languages in books on ebook readers. Of course, they would have to type the words in reverse order, which can be confusing, but it would make life easier in other ways.

I hope this question is ok for this list. I don't plan to really ask anything else, except maybe how to get fonts like this to exist if they don't currently exist. Thanks for your time.

Kenneth Greifer
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