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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Kirk Lowery <klowery AT whi.wts.edu>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Viewing the Unicode/XML version of the Westminster Leningrad Codex
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:17:16 +0100

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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