On 02/05/2004 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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"Web Hebrew AD" and "Web Hebrew Monospace" are the names
of TrueType fonts. Other fonts use the same masquerade, thus
it was an ad-hoc "standard".



There are actually a large number of alternate and mutually incompatible masquerades for Hebrew (including biblical Hebrew) used by various fonts and rendering systems.


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Quoting from the "jewfaq" page,

"The example of pointed text above uses Snuit's Web Hebrew AD font. These Hebrew fonts map to ASCII 224-250, high ASCII characters which are not normally available on the keyboard, but this is the mapping that most Hebrew websites use. I'm not sure how you use those characters on a Mac. In Windows, you can go to ..."



Is this the same as ISO 8859-8 visual encoding?




-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/





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