Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 29/03/2004 18:31, Dora Smith wrote:

> I'm not sure anyone quite understood - but one of my two efforts to 
> post that stuff from Strong's and the International Bible Encyclopedia 
> used Unicode.  My e-mail displayed the Hebrew as gibberish - but once 
> I copied and pasted it into WORD and then highlighted the gibberish 
> and changed the font to Hebrew, the Hebrew text returned - and those 
> words that I could recognize were unscathed.  SUS, for instance.  
>  
> Too bad the list isnt at Yahoo, where one can upload files in a 
> variety of formats that can;t be posted to the list or that are 
> intended for permanent reference. 


Does your ISP offer you any web space? If so, you can upload your files 
there, and include a pointer (URL) in your signature, as I do.

>  
> I wouldn't actually want to write an entire post in Hebrew; just a few 
> words.   With their transliterations. 
>  
> I checked; I actually have WL Hebrew Parsons and WP Hebrew David 
> installed on my computer.  Possibly from the searching I did sometime ago.


Dora, your problem is that this is not Unicode Hebrew, but an old and 
non-standard way of writing Hebrew.

>  
> Only questions - how do you get it to write from right to left (It 
> currently writes from left to right) and how do you put the vowel 
> markers in?  
>  
With these old systems, you don't, and effectively you can't write 
Hebrew in any sensible way. I would advise you to download either SBL 
Hebrew (http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/default.aspx) or the new 
version of Ezra SIL 
(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=EzraSIL_Home). 
These are Unicode Hebrew fonts, and both come with ways of typing Hebrew 
with vowels right to left. These work well with Word 2000 and Windows 
2000 and later; you need Office 2003 only for neat display of accents.

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