Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

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/
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Confirmed.  Microsoft products can handle this.

george
gfsomsel
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