Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Q: How to use Hebrew in HTML pages
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:24:48 -0400
Baruj Diez wrote:
Dear B-Hebrew citizens,
I would like to write some HTML pages with some text
in Hebrew (using UNICODE) and would like to know what
is the best way to do it.
This question is probably better asked on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hebrewcomputing/ Actually, it's probably
been asked enough there that you can get your answer from the archives.
But the short answer is that, as long as your page is encoded in UTF-8,
you should be able to insert any Unicode characters you like.
The complicating factor is whether visitors' browsers will actually
display the text properly. If you don't add styling to specify fonts,
the output will depend on the default fonts set in the browser.
Generally speaking, the output should be functional (since most browsers
are probably set to display in TNR or Arial, which under current
operating systems should include most of the basic Hebrew characters and
points. But if you need to display complex Hebrew (like fully pointed
MT), or you want to make sure it's pretty, you'll probably want to
specify a good Hebrew font for the Hebrew text.