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Like Safari, however, even Firefox 3 does not position the vowels and diacritics correctly. Firefox 3, of which there is a publicly available beta, does support the font, and it will display the page you linked in SBL Hebrew. Firefox 2 will almost assuredly never support fonts like SBL Hebrew. The font rendering technology cannot deal with the font, and so it ignores the font (Microsoft Office does the same thing). Last year, when I was first trying to track down the problem, I received this answer to my post on the Fontlab forum (remember, this was posted 5/2008, hence the references to Firefox 3 as beta): Here’s a link to a recent post, and here’s what I’m seeing (this is a screen capture): Nevertheless, things like John Hobbins’ blog often do not look the way they should.

I’ve got my various preferences set correctly (at least I am pretty sure I do). What I’m perplexed by is the sometimes funky way that Firefox (3.5.5) and OS X (10.6.1) render the SBL Hebrew font vowel pointing. Now, if someone wanted to send me a version of ME CS4 to review… I’ve come to accept (after a great deal of weeping and gnashing followed by much counseling) that unless I am willing to shell out hundreds and hundreds of dollars for the Middle East version of Adobe’s Creative Suite, I will have to use workarounds for Hebrew in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Scrivener does a decent job handling the mix of R->L and L->R text that I create. I use Mellel for wordprocessing most of the time. This page aims to help you install, configure, and use the biblical languages using either approach.I am pretty good at getting my Hebrew fonts to play nice on my computer.

Unicode and the masked English characters used by the BibleWorks font. Notepad, and you should see the difference between the actual Greek characters used by Try copying and pasting each of these verses into a plain text editor like Windows (This line will not look like Greek unless you have the BW font on your computer.)

Unicode is the only way to post Greek/Hebrew to the web (see the examples of 2 Timothy 2:15 below).

Unicode is the international standard for handling characters for all foreign languages, not just Greek and Hebrew.

Whenever possible, use Unicode! Here's why: Many fonts support the full Unicode character set.

Use Unicode to actually type Greek/Hebrew text alongside English.

Use special fonts that display English letters as though they were Greek and Hebrew, such as the common fonts produced by BibleWorks: bwgrkl for Greek and bwhebb for Hebrew.

To use Greek and Hebrew in your documents, you can now choose between two different approaches: