Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

Yes, there certainly was something wrong with the Gentoo Linux distribution. 
Now I’m back on my outdated Macintosh, and the lower text came out with one 
question mark, typical of its outdated language support that newer Macintosh 
computers have fixed.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> 
> On 15/01/2005 06:23, Karl Randolph wrote:
> 
> > ...
> >
> > Today I'm borrowing a Linux computer from Gentoo distribution and 
> > the browser is Firefox, the first example below came out as ??? 
> > and the second doesn't make sense, though it is at least Hebrew.
> >
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> > It is my understanding that some mail programs on the servers 
> > strip out unicode references leaving gibberish. In those cases, 
> > it doesn't matter what software runs the client's computer, the 
> > Hebrew information is stripped out before his computer sees it. 
> > ...
> >
> 
> I would be extremely surprised if any public mail servers, at least 
> those supporting the standard POP3, SMTP and IMAP protocols, 
> continue to strip out character set references. Such mail servers 
> would quickly lose a considerable amount of traffic. Some private 
> in-house mail servers, especially those using private protocols, 
> may do so. And some webmail systems also do not support Unicode. 
> But if you are using a standards-compliant mail client like 
> Thunderbird/Mozilla or Outlook (Express) but cannot receive 
> Unicode, there is a fault in your mail server sufficiently serious 
> that you should complain.
> ...
> 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> >
> >
> >
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Here is some Hebrew to test that:
> >>
> >> בְּרֵאשִׁית
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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