Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:21:11 -0500 "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
writes:
> Peter:
> 
> I just noticed something. While checking up some other settings on 
> my browser, I noticed that I had set the language encoding to 
> “Hebrew (windows)”. When I set the language encoding to UTF-8, 
> Hebrew written in Windows-1255 encoding is displayed 
> 
> ????
> 
> instead of 
> 
> &#1488;&#1489;&#1490;&#1491;
> 
> Now does the second line still show 
> &amp;#1488;&amp;#1489;&amp;#1490;&amp;#1491; or does it show Hebrew 
> letters?
> 
> Hebrew encoded as character entities Camino rendered as Hebrew 
> letters, both when encoded as Hebrew (windows) and as UTF-8.
> 
> An example of character entities follows:
> 
> &#1488;&#1489;&#1490;&#1491;
> 
> How does that render in your browser or mail program?
> 
> What I noticed is that when you encoded Hebrew as character 
> entities, somewhere between your screen and the B-Hebrew archives, 
> the coding was changed from character entities to string encoding. I 
> don’t know where the change came from, but it is clearly 
> recognizable when looking at the page source. What you wrote as 
> Windows-1255 encoding is stored on the B-Hebrew archives as 
> character entities. What are your settings?
> 
> Karl W. Randolph.
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Karl,

It's different, but no better.

george
gfsomsel
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