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  • From: Trevor Peterson <abuian AT earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Q: How to use Hebrew in HTML pages
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:24:48 -0400

Baruj Diez wrote:
Dear B-Hebrew citizens,

I would like to write some HTML pages with some text
in Hebrew (using UNICODE) and would like to know what
is the best way to do it.

This question is probably better asked on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hebrewcomputing/ Actually, it's probably been asked enough there that you can get your answer from the archives. But the short answer is that, as long as your page is encoded in UTF-8, you should be able to insert any Unicode characters you like.

The complicating factor is whether visitors' browsers will actually display the text properly. If you don't add styling to specify fonts, the output will depend on the default fonts set in the browser. Generally speaking, the output should be functional (since most browsers are probably set to display in TNR or Arial, which under current operating systems should include most of the basic Hebrew characters and points. But if you need to display complex Hebrew (like fully pointed MT), or you want to make sure it's pretty, you'll probably want to specify a good Hebrew font for the Hebrew text.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics




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