Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Raoul:

הללו את יהוה כל גוים, שבחוהו כל האמים
כי גבר עלינו חסדו ואמת יהוה לעולם, הללו יה

Can you read the two lines above? If not, there are possibly several
reasons for this.

1) You are using an older OS that does not support Hebrew, such as OS 9
2) Your mail program does not allow for the transmission of unicode data
3) Your ISP does not allow for the transmission of unicode data

While I have not learned all the vowel transliterations, I regularly
use the consonantal transliterations for members of this group who
have to deal with the reasons I just listed. So it would behoove you
to learn and use at least the consonantal transliterations.

Transliterations are listed at http://www.ibiblio.org/bhebrew/ .

By the way, the two lines at the top were written using a Macintosh
running OS X.4.8 using the fonts that came with OS X, quoting Psalm
117.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 1/15/07, Dr. Raoul Comninos <psalms AT telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Several members have posted text to the forum which I cannot read on
> my Mac. I have an iMac and have several Hebrew fonts installed. I
> know how to activate Hebrew language features in Mac, but those are
> only for CREATING Hebrew text. Recently I purchased several Hebrew
> fonts from linguist-software. I have the SBL font and several others.
> However, Hebrew text does not always appear correctly. In addition
> transliteration does not appear correctly. There seems to me to be no
> point in posting Hebrew as transliterated text if even this text is
> not intelligible. The whole point of transliterated text is that it
> obviates the difficulties with Hebrew text.
>
> My question: what must I get to be able to create and read the
> transliteration of members?
>
> Kind regards,
> Dr Raoul Comninos
> 93 Wagenaar Street
> Monte Vista 7460 Cape Town
> FAX: 0866544615
> BREAD AT telkomsa.net