Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>]

I appear to have found an updated version of usp10.dll at
http://www.khmercivil.com/unicode/soft/usp10.dll.

The article that led me to it said I didn't have to replace my system
version of usp10.dll; only put copies of the new one in my IE, OE and WORD
folders in the programs folder.   I also put copies of it in all subfiles
taht contain DLL's.

When I clicked on Regional settings in control panel, Hebrew is suddenly
available as an option.  Previously it was not.

If I select it, will ENGLISH no longer display?   So that I only want to
select it to work in Hebrew?

I have not tested it in either IE or OE yet to see how well it works.

Yours,
Dora

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
To: "b-hebrew list" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:29 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Hebrew Translation and fonts need
"Uniscribe"1.405.2416.1 or later


> The message below is an old message from this list.   It evolved into a
> discussion on open fonts - not which way I want to go.
>
> The file I keep getting told to download in order to display Hebrew on
some
> web pages, that I also need to display unicode Hebrew in Outlook Express,
is
> apparently called Unicode.   It specifically says to download Unicode,
then
> told me it didn't find it on my IE 5.5 installation CD.
>
> According to my research Unicode is also known as USP10.DLL, and also
known
> as "Uniscribe processor".
>
> It ships with new versions of IE, WORD and other things.    But Microsoft
> does not still offer any freestanding version of its Hebrew language
> support.
>
> It turns out I actually have Unicode in my system file where it belongs -
> but it is too old.  I have version 1.0325.2180.1, at 337 K or something.
> Version 1.405.2416.1 was the first version to support Hebrew - and the
popup
> message I am getting specifically says that the file I am looking for is
449
> K - though how it knows the size of the file if it can't find it and needs
> me to insert a "windows update CD" is beyond me.
>
> Peter Kirk sent me something he calls Hebrew Service Pack for IE 5.5 or
> something that I haven't tried to install yet because I don't know what it
> is and he didn't know if it would install.
>
> According to information on the web installing Hebrew support could be as
> easy  as booting my computer into DOS and switching USP10.DLL files.
> Apparently you can't switch it with Windows running because it is an
active
> system file.
>
> If someone has a version of IE - like IE 6, or WORD atleast 2000, or
> anything else that has a verison of Uniscribe that supports Hebrew, will
> they please e-mail me at villandra AT austin.rr.com  a copy of their
USP10.DLL
> file.  It should be found in your Windows/ Winnt32 system folder.
Hopefully
> it is not ncessary to boot into DOS to copy it.
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, Texas
> villandra AT austin.rr.com
>
> > The issues of Hebrew fonts on and off the web, and unicode are
enourmously
> > complex. The reason that many people have (limited) success with
> > displaying
> > Hebrew on their windows system is due to Uniscribe, which is a dll
> > (usp10.dll) in the windows\system directory that gives instructions to
> > windows programs as to how to arrange some of the Hebrew characters in
the
> > Hebrew unicode region. This is still however a problem, as
> > Uniscribe does a
> > fairly poor job at the moment. The best long term solution is open type.
> > There is only one open type Hebrew font that I know of, Guttman Vilna,
and
> > it is only available at the moment legally, as far as I know, with
Office
> > XP. Open Type fonts are fonts that carry detailed instructions for how
to
> > render combinations of glyphs, which is what is needed for Hebrew
> > (mind you,
> > other languages are much more complex than Hebrew).
> >
>
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