Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>]

Peter's and Raymond's (quoted) Unicode both came through fine, here
(Outlook 2002 on Win98SE).

But how does it come through on the digests and the archives?
I had heard that the new Mailman software does not allow searching for
Unicode characters, so I checked the new archives, and found that the
Unicode displayed correctly in Peter's message, but not in Raymond's
(the characters were there, but in reversed order).
Further, when I tried searching the archives, I discovered that the
archive search is not working at all, even for English words. No results
were found.

One option (for those with the appropriate software) for composing
emails for B-Hebrew would be to type Hebrew in both Unicode and
transliteration, at least until Linux and Macs have adequate Unicode
support.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew
Poetry)
Ph.D. Student, McMaster University
pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
> For example: the first word in the Hebrew Bible is בְּרֵאשִׁית
> B.:R")$IYT. That appears on my screen correctly (in Windows 2000),
> though in very ugly Courier New fixed space Hebrew. What does it look
> like to others, and in what systems?