[mobile-devel] Hebrew font?

[SonWon]

Ah, this brings back memories.  I wrote a program that read all of the 
Hebrew characters and reversed their order in my custom modules so they 
would display correctly.  I reformatted everything I could to avoid 
having any bottlenecks.  The CPU in the PDAs are resource constrained as 
everyone knows.

David Trotz wrote:
> Ken,
> That is very encouraging. I will look into getting the characters to 
> read in the correct direction. It may not be in the next release, but 
> who knows.
> --
> In Christ,
> David Trotz
>
> Ken Penner wrote:
>> Yes, I'm running Swordreader v1.9 beta 1.
>> I solved one of the problems: By copying the Tahoma fonts from my desktop to my HTC Diamond \Windows\Fonts folder, what were boxes are now Hebrew characters. Unfortunately, they are not displayed in proper Hebrew order, right-to-left. Still, this is an improvement.
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Barry Drake [mailto:bdrake at crosswire.org] 
>> Sent: February 6, 2009 11:39 AM
>> To: All things related to SWORD mobile development.
>> Subject: Re: [mobile-devel] Hebrew font?
>>
>> Hi Ken ........
>>
>> Ken Penner wrote:
>>   
>>> I just installed the beta today, and get boxes instead of Hebrew glyphs 
>>> when using the WLC Hebrew Bible. 
>>>     
>>
>> First, welcome to this list.  If you are using SwordReader with Windows 
>> Mobile on a Pocket PC then, yes you have come to the right place. 
>> Sadly, this edition which is the latest, does not yet support Hebrew (at 
>> all) or even Greek with accents.  Both are on the todo list, but please 
>> be very patient as there is only one developer, David Trotz, who is 
>> actively working on this project, snd he is to say the least, stretched.
>>
>> I hope this excellent app. is useful to you in the meantime.  Keep your 
>> eyes open for updates.  This list should keep you informed.  Don't 
>> forget to say which app you are using when asking questions - there is a 
>> SwordReader list which is even more specific (assuming you are using 
>> SwordReader).
>>
>> God bless,
>> Barry
>>
>> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United 
>> Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for 
>> our church homepages).
>>
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