Is Hebrew support possible?

[sandoval]

I am hoping to be able to view Hebrew web pages using the Ezra SIL fonts. Is this possible? An example of the pages in question is: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c0101.htm Also, there is a link to the font at http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/c.htm.

When I try it, I get a page displaying question marks. I have tried converting the font and have installed that too. When I use the Font Viewer to view the font it only shows the Latin characters.

Thanks much for any help.
-ALS

[sandoval]

BTW, this is for Palm OS 5 (Clie UX-40). After reviewing the doc more I think the iSiloX conversion is okay. The problem seems to be that the Font conversion does not do Unicode or alternate codepages.

Is there any other way to convert a font and get it all?
Thanks,
ALS

[iSilo]

Yes, that is correct. The iSiloX font conversion does not do Unicode or alternate code pages. It only does Windows-1251.

Unfortunately there is currently no direct support for display of Hebrew, so you are for the most part on your own for getting that to work.

[barkoosh]

Hello

MS Word can do the job. It can convert Unicode pages to a different encoding that iSilo for Palm can display correctly. (Of course, this depends on the localization program used to support Hebrew for Palm. I will assume that one is using PiLoc). Here are thew steps:

1. Save the page to disk.
2. Open it with MS Word.
3. From the Tools menu, choose Options, then the General tab.
4. At the bottom, press the Web Options button, then choose the Encoding tab.
5. Under Save this document as (where you will probably read Unicode UTF-8), click on the arrow and choose Hebrew (Windows).
6. Press OK (twice) then save the document.

You will now have an html page with Windows encoding that can be used by iSilox.

Notes:

a. The same trick can be applied to convert pages from Unicode to Arabic (Windows) (I have no idea regarding other non-Roman languages).

b. Of course, one can type any text he wants in Word and make sure he performs the steps above to save the document in an html encoding that Palm (and iSilo) can display correctly.

c. Since there's no support by iSilo for Arabic and Hebrew, few display problems are expected to show up. They require doing some workarounds.

[thierry]

Hebrew text as UTF8 shows up the correct letters but the writing direction is reversed on iSilo for PocketPC. How do I get a correct right-to-left display? Is there a setting in iSilo or iSiloX which I could not yet find?

After all I read above there is no problem on palm, so what about PocketPC?

[new2u]

few display problems are expected to show up. They require doing some workarounds.

what problems and what workarounds???

[barkoosh]

I don't know about Hebrew, but in Arabic the first letter of a line is sometimes hidden under the right margin, or only a part of it shows. The workaround is to edit the Word document, before converting it to HTML and then to iSilo, by making the indentation before text of 0.1 cm.

Changing the color or attribute (whether it's bold or italic...) of a part of a paragraph causes some display problems in Arabic. One must make sure that the whole paragraph is of one color/attribute.

Sometimes the order of RTL columns must be arranged in the reversed order in Word if you want to display them correctly in iSilo.

In all of this I'm assuming that you're using PiLoc for your Palm device.

[bhimawan]

[QUOTE=barkoosh]Hello

MS Word can do the job. It can convert Unicode pages to a different encoding that iSilo for Palm can display correctly. (Of course, this depends on the localization program used to support Hebrew for Palm. I will assume that one is using PiLoc). Here are thew steps:

1. Save the page to disk.
2. Open it with MS Word.
3. From the Tools menu, choose Options, then the General tab.
4. At the bottom, press the Web Options button, then choose the Encoding tab.
5. Under Save this document as (where you will probably read Unicode UTF-8), click on the arrow and choose Hebrew (Windows).
6. Press OK (twice) then save the document.

You will now have an html page with Windows encoding that can be used by iSilox.

I have tried this (using Palm TX, PiLoc and IsiloX), however, if I look more detail it seems that most top part of the arabic text is not appeared in Palm TX although I've set the Spacing:before 12 point and after 12 point in Microsoft Word.
Also, I always fail to convert arabic document using Microsoft FrontPage, anyone can help ?