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  • From: Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew font
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:31:43 -0500


In some systems square boxes indicate that the system font lacks the specified Unicode character. System fonts for Hebrew are usually designed for Israeli Hebrew which doesn't use accents and will display boxes if the text contains accents.

The SBL Hebrew font, SBL_Hbrw.ttf, has all the accents defined in the latest version of Unicode, Unicode 4.1, and is available for FREE at

http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx .

It displays properly in all recent Windows systems. Linux and Mac OS X systems have rendering problems with this version of the font and don't display the text very well.

Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT




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