Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 05/07/2005 19:34, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Peter:
>
> I used Camino web browser looking at and authoring the messages on line. Not 
> only did the Hebrew show up when I authored the text, but even after going 
> through your mail reader and returned, I still see Hebrew (some mail programs 
> change unicode that they don’t understand to question marks). Could there be 
> something in your mail reader that does not always display unicode? Or do I 
> need to switch to a cleaner browser like Safari that displays cleaner unicode?
>
>  
My mail reader, Mozilla, displays Unicode fine when encoded properly - 
using "character entities" or properly encoded characters in HTML 
e-mail, or properly encoded characters in plain text e-mail. But 
"character entities" should not be used in plain text e-mail, and should 
not be interpreted as characters. The b-hebrew archives have made the 
correct adjustment here; but do you see Hebrew letters at 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2005-July/023687.html ? This 
would appear to be a bug, possibly in Camino but more probably in your 
webmail program.

I would recommend setting the character encoding used by your webmail 
program to UTF-8, if you can. It should then send properly encoded 
Hebrew and other languages. Also set it to send plain text e-mail, for 
this list accepts only that and it may be the conversion which is 
causing the problem.

Example of properly encoded Hebrew characters (in Windows-1255 encoding):
אבגד

Example of "character entities" which should be displayed as ampersand, 
hash, four digits and a semicolon:
אבגד

The same spaced out to break any automatic conversion:
& # 1488 ; & # 1489 ; & # 1490 ; & # 1491;

What do you see?

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Peter Kirk
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