Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:04:20 +0000 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> On 15/01/2005 14:47, Jim West wrote:
> >
> > Peter Kirk wrote:
> >
> >> Karl, there is clearly something wrong with the Linux computer if 
> it 
> >> cannot display the first word of the Hebrew Bible correctly, as 
> >> below. This word was not corrupted by any mail server, nor by the 
> 
> >> Linux system, because it appeared correctly in your reply to me.
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> ???????????
> >>>
> > I'm not sure if you can see it or not- but in the sample I 
> received 
> > the letters are separated by the vowels- a full space being 
> devoted to 
> > each.
> >
> No, I don't see this, it appears correctly to me, within the 
> limitations 
> of the font. What is your default font for display of Hebrew text? 
> Try 
> setting it to a font which supports Unicode Hebrew, which should 
> include 
> any of the system standard fonts.
> 
> But you may need to enable Hebrew as one of the languages supported 
> by 
> your system. It is somewhere in Control Panel, Language Settings or 
> something similar, in Windows 2000 and XP. In Windows 95 and 98 you 
> get 
> this by installing Internet Explorer 5 or later with the Hebrew 
> support 
> option.
> 
> > here's the first word of genesis:
> >
> > ty#)rb
> >
> I just see Latin script backwards. But then I don't have SPEzra 
> installed. And I note that if I did I would still not see correctly 
> positioned vowels.
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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Peter,

I do have SPEzra, but I still need to copy what appears and re-format it
to get it to appear in Hebrew characters (without vowels) as ??????. 
Part of the problem -- indeed, I think most of the problem -- lies in the
fact that SPEzra is NOT a unicode font but one of the legacy fonts.

george
gfsomsel
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George F Somsel wrote:

> I do have SPEzra, but I still need to copy what appears and re-format 
> it to get it to appear in Hebrew characters (without vowels) as 
> בראשית.  Part of the problem -- indeed, I think most of the problem -- 
> lies in the fact that SPEzra is NOT a unicode font but one of the 
> legacy fonts.
>  
> george

I get the text in Hebrew characters from you George. 
Can you kindly explain to me how one goes about installing unicode so 
that one can read unicode hebrew and greek?  My web browser has both 
built in (along with 2 gazillion others).

Is unicode only meant to be read on the web?  And if so, what does one 
do when one wishes to post something from a word document on a web page?

Jim