Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

You admit that the problem with your reading of Hebrew in email messages is 
your mail program.

The online email program that I am using may be changing the Hebrew to 
character entities, but the interpretation of those character entities to 
Hebrew letters when I read messages is happening in my browser. That your 
mail program does not render html correctly, in this case character entities, 
should not be blamed on any other source. Apparently that is common among 
mail programs.

Maybe we should inform ibiblio that their software has a bug that is 
corrupting character entities into html text strings, a bug that effects not 
only us, but others who deal with other languages. A patch shouldn’t be that 
difficult. Who to contact?

Karl W. Randolph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> 
> In plain text e-mail, which means all postings on this list, 
> character entities should not be rendered except as strings 
> starting with "&", because there is no such thing as a character 
> entity. The mail program, yours, which renders them in any other 
> way is the one which has a problem.
> 
>...
> 
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/