Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Friday 14 January 2005 14:27, Peter Kirk wrote:
> 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.

I use kmail for Linux (Fedora Core 2 at the moment) and I also got question 
marks, but I can read what Peter posted because I do have the Unicode fonts 
installed.  Granted, the Hebrew comes out so tiny that my bifocals have a 
little difficulty with it, but that's probably something on my end.

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Dave Washburn
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