[osis-core] [off-topic] quick question for Hebrew scholar

Harry Plantinga osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:21:24 -0400


I'm working on a program that converts HTML files
using Greek and Hebrew fonts such as SIL Galatia
or Hebraica to Unicode. 

The conversion seems to work correctly, but the 
Hebrew in the Unicode version is reversed compared 
to the source file, which was a word document using 
the font Hebraica.

Presumably, this is because Hebraica is a left-to-
right font, but Unicode Hebrew displays right-to-
left, at least in Win XP/IE 6.0.

QUESTION:  is the Hebrew here OK?  I.e. is it OK
that the characters are reversed compared to the
source document?

http://www.ccel.org/~hplantin/hebrew.htm [view with
Win XP/IE 6 or another browser that supports Hebrew
Unicode with right-to-left rendering]

-Harry