It’s been a bit more than three years since I wrote about a workaround for getting hyperref to play (almost) nicely with Hebrew. Over the past few weeks, I saw a rising interest in this, and a few people contacted me regarding this issue. So I thought it’s a good opportunity to better document the current situation and possible approaches that should be further investigated, which I believe might lead to better solutions.
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Getting Hyperref to Work with Hebrew (in XeTeX)
The hyperref package is notorious for causing problems with RTL text, which unfortunately includes Hebrew. In this post, I present some preliminary workarounds that enable the user to use the hyperref package with Hebrew and possibly other RTL languages. The solution requires XeTeX, which is available in TeXLive. I had no success yet porting the workaround to pdfTeX, which is more popular.
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