Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

On 1/15/05 9:04 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
>> 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.

Well, I _do_ have SPEzra installed, and SPTiberian and the rest of that
suite of fonts, and I still just see Latin script backwards. As I mentioned
in another post, that's because font information isn't transmitted in a
text-only e-mail. That's why Unicode is a superior option: you don't have to
encode font information, just character information (which is what a
text-only stream does).

-- 
R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Armstrong Fellow in Religion
Pepperdine University
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