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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mozilla Thunderbird mail software
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:27:19 +0000

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
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