John:

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John Leake <[email protected]> wrote:

> What we should be grateful for is the scanned document, the image (the
> text version is just the OCR byproduct of the scanning process and
> generally is of most use as a search resource within the PDF. So yes, Will,
> we should be grateful.
>

When I tried looking at it with different encodings, the gibberish came out
with different results depending on the encoding. That indicates that the
missing Hebrew is written with two or more byte characters. Now if only we
can decipher  those.

>
> John Leake
>
> (is my Arabic appearing on your system as disconnected letters? Yes, it
> does look wrong as the terminal forms signify word divisions that don't
> exist. But Arabic written with separate letters - square Hebrew letters, at
> least - gas formed one part of Arabic for a millennium.
>

Nah, your Arabic looks like Arabic, all running together. I’m using
Macintosh.

>
> John )
>
> ----------------------------------
> ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها
> He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it
> ----------------------------------
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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