Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Dear Trevor:

Whether I like it or not, unicode is on the way to be the new standard. I see 
no reason to develop a new transliteration scheme.

My main computer is a 486 vintage Macintosh running OS 8.1 because it is a 
notebook and at my side when I need it. But it is not unicode capable. It is 
no longer a question of if, but when I can afford to upgrade. If I am to 
continue the sort of research and work that I do, it will have to be in 
unicode, and communicated in unicode so that all can understand it. I am 
working not only in Hebrew, but also Chinese and other non-Latin based 
writing systems.

Already, when I see some complex transliteration scheme in my mailbox that I 
do not understand, I follow the Tanakh reference and open my Bible program to 
read it in the Hebrew font which I understand, whereas I often don’t 
understand the transliteration. It is only a matter of time before B-Hebrew 
mailing list will be in unicode (unicode long ago was already able to handle 
unpointed text like which I prefer).

As for file formats, when I want to make sure that all my readers can open 
it, I send it as a .pdf attachment. At this time it looks as if it is easier 
to fix what remains of unicode than to develop a new transliteration scheme 
used world-wide.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
(A new transliteration scheme)
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