Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe AT crosswire.org>]

Dear b-hebrew,
	Just wanted to make our free online tools available for this thread, to 
show you the problems that Steve has pointed out.  Here's a parallel 
view of the WLC and NASB

http://www.crosswire.org/study/parallelstudy.jsp?add=WLC&add=NASB&key=gen.1.1

	All text is rendered in Unicode UTF-8, so you might easily copy and 
paste into your email, if this is appropriate for the list.

	Our Hebrew (WLC) includes cantillation (thanks Kirk Lowery & 
Westminster Hebrew Institute!).  You might wish to use it as a test for 
your OS and browser.

        -Troy A. Griffitts
        Director
        CrossWire Bible Society



> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 23:41:41 -0500
> From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
> Subject: Unicode, was Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10
> To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Message-ID: <20050515044141.CA07D1CE303 AT ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Steve:
>
> Not only the email clients, but some OS are not unicode aware yet.
>
> Many people are still running older versions  of Windowsâ„¢ on their 
> computers, which are not unicode compliant. Until recently I was running OS 9 
> on my 11 year old Macintosh, which had separately installed language 
> packs—the Hebrew which I had installed could read and write the consonants, 
> but some of the vowels threw it for a loop. Now it’s running OS X.2 which 
> is better.
>
> I understand that WindowsXP is Unicode aware so you can use it to read 
> Hebrew, but I don’t know how to use it to type Hebrew.
>
> The latest versions of GNOME and KDE on Linux are unicode aware, at least for 
> reading. But I haven’t tried them for writing Hebrew. But some people 
> running Linux prefer using text based shells which are ASCII only.
>
> On the web things are not as clean. From a Macintosh, those versions 
> requiring a SBL font do not look good in either Camino or Safari browsers. It 
> doesn’t matter which font I use, the SBL font actually makes the pages look 
> worse. However, the texts on the Snunit and Mechon-Mamre sites look good in 
> Safari (at least the verses I spot checked), even with full cantillation 
> pointing, and the same in Camino as the versions requiring the SBL font 
> without using the SBL font. I’m using the latest versions of both programs 
> on OS X.4 Tiger. Downloaded .pdf versions have the points correctly 
> positioned.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.