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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: kwrandolph AT email.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew in messages
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:39:25 -0400

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.
__________________

Karl,

It's different, but no better.

george
gfsomsel
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