Pardon the thread drift, but as it happens, I think this is the first time I've ever seen Hebrew characters appear on my screen at Mudcat, or any site where it seemed appropriate to discuss it.

How do you type Hebrew letters? I know you could laboriously insert, or copy and paste one letter at a time from a separate window; and I know you could memorize and type a 4-digit code for each character, but there must be an easier way. I suppose you could configure your keyboard so that one key corresponds to one Hebrew letter, but that would probably make it hard to switch back to English, wouldn't it?

Suppose you were fluent in Hebrew or Yiddish (or Russian, or Arabic, or Greek), and you wanted to be able to type long passages in that language, but you also wanted to switch back to English frequently, and you wanted the whole process to work as efficiently as possible, how would you do it?

This is just a theoretical question; I don't actually plan to do it. (I can't read or write any of those languages anyway.) I'm just curious.

Also, when you type Hebrew, does your cursor move from right to left? Or do the letters appear to the right of your cursor?