Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 08/07/2005 21:21, Karl Randolph wrote:

> 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 
>
> אבגד
>  

No Hebrew letters in this message. The first line is question marks, the 
second codes starting with "&".

But then this is what I would expect, because the encoding of your 
message in Western (Windows-1252). You can send Hebrew characters in 
plain text e-mail only if the character encoding supports Hebrew, i.e. 
is one of the specific Hebrew encodings like Windows-1255 or else UTF-8.

> Now does the second line still show 
> אבגד 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:
>
> אבגד
>
> How does that render in your browser or mail program?
>  

I still see explicit character entities, i.e. codes starting with "&", 
in my mail program which is displaying a plain text e-mail.

> 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?
>
>  
I never sent character entities, except when I was quoting what you sent 
to me; I sent Hebrew characters in Windows-1255 and/or UTF-8. It is 
possible that the archiving program has internally converted them to 
character entities (which you would see when looking at the page source) 
when it incorporated the plain text e-mail into an HTML page. But in 
that case your browser should display Hebrew characters. But I don't 
think the archiving program has done anything wrong.

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Peter Kirk
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