On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:47:28 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Your particular example of HTML mail is not a typical one. In your case
>> the HTML is used for the purpose of displaying special fonts and characters
>> not found in ordinary ascii text.
> Not at all. Hebrew ASCII exists and is in a very common use in
> E-Mail. More common the "HTML hebrew", infact.
> Sorry to disappoint you. :)
Or:
How can this be? I have looked at all the characters available in the
ascii "alphabet" and it does not appear to include characters resembling
those found in the Hebrew alphabet, although it may contain just a few.
I can recognize Hebrew text when I see it because I have looked at the
Hebrew Bible and also some versions of the Christian Bible where some
passages of Hebrew text are included along with the English translation.
Such is my meager knowledge of the Hebrew language. I am certainly no
biblical scholar, but I do recognize Hebrew text when I see it, although
I can neither read nor understand it.
By Hebrew ASCII you probably mean a set of certain characters found within
the ascii alphabet which are arbitrarily assigned by some acknowledged
and accepted standards committee as representing some corresponding Hebrew
characters of the "real" Hebrew alphabet, rather than a "transliterated"
Hebrew alphabet. Am I right about this? Maybe there is some special
subset of HTML and available with special viewers that enables the
rendering of the Hebrew characters as they really look like. Can you
enlighten me on this?
Shalom,
Sam Heywood
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