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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: DJNordlund AT aol.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mozilla Thunderbird mail software
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:51:35 +0000

On 14/01/2005 23:27, DJNordlund AT aol.com wrote:

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No, when using unicode fonts it is not necessary to have "the correct" font
installed. That is the benefit of unicode. All you need is some unicode
font that supports the language you are interested in. Unicode fonts like MS
Arial Unicode, and Palatino Linotype support (at least) English, polytonic
Greek, and Hebrew. Those fonts can appropriately render Hebrew or Greek text
that is written using those fonts, or any other unicode fonts, such as SIL EZRA
unicode or Cyberbit Basic, etc., as long as UTF-8 encoding is used to send
the text (as pointed out by Peter Kirk).


Actually you don't need any of these special fonts to read Unicode Hebrew. At least on Windows XP and 2000, I think also on Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 5 or later, the system standard fonts Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New support legible Hebrew. You will just get the following problems:

1) The holam dot is wrongly shown as a spacing character;
2) No support for accents/cantillation marks (you will see square boxes instead);
3) The text may be very small, as Dave noted;
4) The fixed spacing Courier New, often the default for plain text e-mail, looks very ugly in Hebrew.

For better looking results, use Ezra SIL (not SIL Ezra which is not Unicode), SBL Hebrew etc.

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Peter Kirk
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peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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