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  • From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mozilla Thunderbird mail software
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:50:04 -0800

On 1/15/05 9:18 AM, "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com> 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 ??????.
> 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.

The problem is not in the fonts, but in the amount of information that is
transmitted in the e-mail. Only e-mails that leave their source and reach
their destination in HTML format actually preserve the font formatting
information. That's why Unicode is superior ... But now I'm repeating
myself. :-)

--
R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Armstrong Fellow in Religion
Pepperdine University
http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cheard
http://www.iTanakh.org
http://www.semioticsandexegesis.info






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