Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

I did not actually say this, Ken Penner did, but I agree with him.

Not everyone is able to read and write older fonts, especially
non-transliterated Hebrew etc, which depend for their operation on tricking
the OS into displaying Hebrew characters for codes which it thinks are Latin
characters, or else graphics. Newer operating systems can't be tricked so
easily. So for example in recent versions of Internet Explorer the SP and
older SIL Hebrew fonts do not display correctly.

On the other hand, Unicode can be displayed correctly by recent versions of
every current operating system. There is a problem with the Mac only in that
Microsoft has chosen, allegedly for strategic reasons, not to support
Unicode properly in its application software for the Mac.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Reinhard G.Lehmann
> Sent: 24 April 2003 17:32
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: SBL transliteration font?
> 
> Dear Rodney K. Duke,
> 
> in my opinion too SPAtlantis is the best for you, as Ken noted, but I
> cannot agree
> with Peter Kirk that it is in principle better to use the Unicode
> characters built
> into standard Windows fonts because not everyone already is able to read &
> write
> unicode. And SP Atlantis is useful for different platforms (also for the
> Mac).
> 
> Reinhard
> 
> 
> >
> > SBL's own free transliteration font is SPAtlantis, which can be found at
> > ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/windows/
> > However, as Peter Kirk said, it is in principle better to use the
> Unicode
> > characters built into standard Windows fonts.
> >
> > Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
> > Vocabulary Memorisation Software:
> > http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/westerholm/flash or
> http://sensoft.nav.to
> >
> > > Do any of you know a freeware Hebrew transliteration font for the SBL
> > > style of transliteration that works with Windows?
> >
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