[Biblical-languages] Operating Systems for Greek and Hebrew

Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Mon Apr 28 21:40:40 EDT 2003


OpenOffice 1.1 Beta, a free (50MB) download from www.openoffice.org, is
supposed to support Unicode Hebrew, also presumably Greek. It certainly does
so on Windows. It is also available for Linux and Solaris; does anyone know
if it supports Unicode Hebrew and Greek on these platforms? And it should
soon (does anyone know how soon?) be ported to Mac OS X. If that version
supports complex scripts like Hebrew in Unicode, it will be a major
breakthrough in multilingual word processing, also spreadsheet and
presentation software.

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: biblical-languages-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:biblical-
> languages-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of P. T. Rourke
> Sent: 28 April 2003 17:25
> To: biblical-languages at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Biblical-languages] Operating Systems for Greek and Hebrew
> 
> Great to see the list back up.
> 
> Windows XP Pro, at least, comes with a polytonic
> (Classical/Biblical/Pre-1978) Greek keyboard that you can install
> separately in the setup process.  I don't like the layout myself, but it
> works.
> 
> The support for Greek in OS X (Macintosh) is very good now, except for
> Word Processing (MS Office doesn't support it, not really, nor does
> AppleWorks, even though TextEdit - the OS X analog to Notepad - does).
> Most of the iApps (Mail, iCal, Address Book, the Finder) work.  If you
> do get an Apple computer with OS X, you should download the Unicode
> version of GreekKeys (do a search, or if someone wants, I'll post the
> URL to the list later on).  The support for Hebrew in OS X is I believe
> another story, though Peter Constable would know more about that, I
> suspect.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
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