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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: David P Donnelly <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] This is only a test
  • Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:50:13 +0100

On 05/06/2006 23:20, David P Donnelly wrote:
Inseparable Prepositions


&#1497;&#1456;&#1512;&#64309;&#64298;&#1464;&#1500;&#1463;&#1497;&#1460;&
#1501; plus
&#64305;&#1460;&#1497;&#1512;&#64309;&#64298;&#1464;&#1500;&#1463;&#1497;
&#1460;&#1501; = &#64305;&#1456;

The above does not look good on the computer screen on Wikipedia!

The above looks much better when printed out but it is definitely less than perfect when printed out




{{Hebrew|&#1497;&#1456;&#1512;&#64309;&#64298;&#1464;&#1500;&#1463;&#1497
;&#1460;&#1501;}} plus
{{hebrew|&#64305;&#1460;&#1497;&#1512;&#64309;&#64298;&#1464;&#1500;&#146
3;&#1497;&#1460;&#1501;}} = {{hebrew|&#64305;&#1456;}}

The above looks good on the computer screen on Wikipedia

The above looks even better when printed out

None of this looks at all good on b-hebrew, as it is displayed (at least by Thunderbird) as explicit character entities, e.g. "& # 1 4 9 7 ;" without the spaces. That is because b-hebrew accepts plain text only, and these character entities are HTML constructs which are not (or at least should not be) recognised in plain text.

The only proper standard-compliant way to send Hebrew script to the b-hebrew list is to select plain text with UTF-8 encoding (not "us-ascii" which you selected) and send properly UTF-8 encoded Unicode Hebrew. But there are still people on the list using mail clients (left over from the Ark, I think) which don't support UTF-8 encoding and so cannot display this Hebrew. And I am not sure what now works properly in the archives.

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Peter Kirk
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