Computerized Text Production
There are orthographic alternatives in the digital representation of Yiddish text that may not be visually apparent, but are of crucial importance to computer applications that compare two sequences of characters to determine if they match exactly. Examples of this are database queries and spell checkers. Situations where differing representations of typographically similar characters can give unexpected or incorrect results are described below. This may prove a particular concern for Internet users as Yiddish becomes available for use in Internationalized Domain Names, and begins to appear in Web and e-mail addresses (see, for example, http://בײַשפּיל.טעסט and http://about.museum/idn/museum-se-yiddish.pdf). There are also problems specific to the display of pointed Hebrew text in Wikipedia articles. These are discussed in detail at Wikipedia:Niqqud.
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