Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Viewing the Unicode/XML version of the Westminster Leningrad Codex
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:17:16 +0100
On 29/04/2005 15:25, Kirk Lowery wrote:
... There are some
applications that can render vowels and consonants properly (yudit, for
example), but no browser yet. We're probably *still* five years away on
Linux systems... <sigh>
Kirk
We are certainly not five years away on Linux. But it depends on how the
application (browser, mail reader etc) chooses to attempt to render
Hebrew. If it uses a recent version of Pango, Hebrew with vowels and
accents should already be displayed correctly.
For the situation in Mozilla and Firefox/Thunderbird with pointed Hebrew
support (on various OSs), see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60546 , especially comments
73 and 74. Note the following: "It turns out that non-justified text in
Linux builds with Pango enabled is already at least on a par with
Windows." What this means is that you can already build your own version
of Mozilla etc with Pango which has Hebrew support, although doing this
is recommended only for real techies! See also
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214715 , which tells you
how to do this. If things have got this far, the delay before release is
only for testing, caused by a lack of people able to volunteer the time
for testing.
--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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