Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> >
> Do these fonts comply with international standards like Unicode?

I dont know.  And frankly I dont care.  If i have a font and you have 
the same font and we both have a mailer that reads that font, the 
problem is solved, isn't it.

> Or are they an attempt to get this list to use a non-standard, 
> deprecated and obsolescent means of representing Hebrew, probably in 
> the user-hostile "visual order", which is in fact not supported by 
> modern software like Thunderbird and modern OSs like Windows XP?

Good grief.  Whats all this about?  "attempt to get the list.... " etc, 
blah....  I really dont have some secret hidden agenda Peter.  I am not 
a computer geek like most evidently are, and I dont know all the 
intricate mystical lingo of utf and unicode and all that dribble.  I was 
merely suggesting a simple solution which would enable all of us to read 
hebrew instead of transliteration.  Nonetheless, that simple suggestion 
has been tortured, convoluted, tormented, and burned on the fire of 
criticism, hostility and innuendo (see above).  So, frankly, I dont give 
a flaming rats rip what anyone on list does in terms of fonts or the 
like.  Forget i mentioned it and go back to the inarticulate 
transcription that seems to have captured the hearts and minds of several.

Vale....

Jim

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