Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 29/04/2005 15:25, Kirk Lowery wrote:

> ... There are some
> applications that can render vowels and consonants properly (yudit, for
> example), but no browser yet. We're probably *still* five years away on
> Linux systems... <sigh>
>
> Kirk
>  

We are certainly not five years away on Linux. But it depends on how the 
application (browser, mail reader etc) chooses to attempt to render 
Hebrew. If it uses a recent version of Pango, Hebrew with vowels and 
accents should already be displayed correctly.

For the situation in Mozilla and Firefox/Thunderbird with pointed Hebrew 
support (on various OSs), see 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60546 , especially comments 
73 and 74. Note the following: "It turns out that non-justified text in 
Linux builds with Pango enabled is already at least on a par with 
Windows." What this means is that you can already build your own version 
of Mozilla etc with Pango which has Hebrew support, although doing this 
is recommended only for real techies! See also 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214715 , which tells you 
how to do this. If things have got this far, the delay before release is 
only for testing, caused by a lack of people able to volunteer the time 
for testing.

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Peter Kirk
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