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text('hebrew string') matlab

shalom
I am trying to work with hebrew strings in matlab. but when I am trying to assign hebrew string to a variable, it doens’t assign it. for example:

a=’א’

a =

any ideas why?

Answer 1

Aleph is in UTF-16, which matlab represents with its standard 2 byte char format. It probably doesn’t support input of it this way.

You probably have to do

 a = char(1488);  % 1488 is UTF-16 for aleph

And then output it some way readable by UTF-16.

If you’re trying to simply put Hebrew into a figure title or something, then you can directly write Latex like this:

 title('\aleph')

If you are trying use Matlab for text processing, I think it will work but you might not be able to view the characters in the Matlab command window.

Update: On my system even writing to a file in the Hebrew encoding is not supported:

 fid = fopen('c:\temp\chris.txt','w','native','hebrew');
 Warning: The encoding 'ISO-8859-8' is not supported.
 See the documentation for FOPEN. 

But maybe your machine supports it if you have Hebrew languages set up.