Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] Mozilla Thunderbird mail software

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: peterkirk AT qaya.org
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mozilla Thunderbird mail software
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:17:39 -0500

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:27:19 +0000 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> 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:
>
> ???????????
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
___________________

Confirmed. Microsoft products can handle this.

george
gfsomsel
___________




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page