Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

I can read the Hebrew fine,
How do I compose in it?
I have Hebrew fonts on my word processor, how
do I access it for e-mail???
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Ken Penner
> Sent: Tue, January 21, 2003 9:55 AM
> To: 'Biblical Hebrew'
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Unicode Hebrew fonts
>
>
> 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 áÌÀøÅàùÑÄéú
> > 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?
>
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