[Biblical-languages] Operating Systems for Greek and Hebrew

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Mon Apr 28 16:06:43 EDT 2003


P. T. Rourke wrote on 04/28/2003 11:24:49 AM:

> The support for Hebrew in OS X is I believe
> another story, though Peter Constable would know more about that, I
> suspect.

The Mac OS has good support for pretty much any script in Unicode. Of
course, fonts are required -- indeed, fonts that have "smarts" (knowledge
of how the script behaves), and I'm not sure if OS X comes with any fonts
for Biblical Hebrew. The biggest gap, though, is application support: there
are still not many apps for the Mac that take advantage of support for
Unicode and complex scripts that has been in the OS for a while now.



- Peter


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