Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 14/01/2005 18:32, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:

> The Mozilla Thunderbird mail software is available /free/ at
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
>
> It accepts Hebrew character input and pasting from the Unicode/XML 
> Tanach.
>
> ???
>
> for example.


I get question marks as well, with Mozilla which is the same under the 
hood as Thunderbird.

Your problem is that you sent out the message with "Western 
(ISO-8859-1)" encoding. To send Hebrew with Thunderbird, you need to 
select either "Unicode (UTF-8)" or one of the Hebrew encodings - 
probably from the View menu then under "Character Encodings", or you can 
make Unicode your default as I do.

Here is some Hebrew to test that:

בְּרֵאשִׁית

This should be readable with MS Outlook and Outlook Express (recent 
versions, but perhaps only on Windows) and several other mail clients, 
not only with Thunderbird and Mozilla.

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Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



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