#1906 Hebrew letters bug

[Thierry Wieder]

Hi

I'm a new user of PGV 4.1.3.

When I add a name in Hebrew, 2 specific letters appear as squares, while all the others appear correctly.

On the other hand, if I change the page language form English to Hebrew, all the letters appear correctly, including those 2.

Is there anything that I can do to slove this problem?

Kind regards
Thierry Wieder
tomixltd@netvision.net.il

[Greg Roach]

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Is this on a public server? If so, can you post the URL of a page that demonstrates this problem?

[Thierry Wieder]

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Hi fisharebest

Thanks for your reply.
You can go to http://80.179.231.27/~thierry/index.php?ctype=gedcom and you'll see an article called "test for fisharebest" with some samples.
In the article below (which isn't mine but a general welcome message from the site)those 2 letters appear correctly.
Thanks
Thierry

[Gerry Kroll]

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Thierry:
I accessed this test site using FireFox and with Opera, both on a W2K system.

The incorrect letters appear incorrectly also when the page language is set to Hebrew.

When I look at the page source with a hexadecimal editor, the problem character appears to be x'D73F' according to FireFox. Opera does things a little differently and doesn't show the correct hexadecimal character here. When translated from the two-byte representation to the actual UTF-8 code point, this letter becomes x'05FF'. There is no graphic assigned to this code point.

See the Unicode chart for Hebrew: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf

Here's the first line of your text, as seen by FireFox. The hexadecimal string has been broken up according to what I see on the screen, except that it's LTR, as it's in the page source. Presentation is, of course, RTL.

D73F D7A0 D799 20 D7A0 D795 D7AA D79F 20 D79C D79A 20 D793 D795 D792 D79E D73F 20 D7A9 D79C 20 D794 D791 D7A2 D799 D794 .<br /> 0A

Here it is again, converted to UTF-8:
05FF 05E0 05D9 20 05E0 05D5 05EA 05DF 20 05DC 05DA 20 05D3 05D5 05D2 05DE 05FF 20 05E9 05DC 20 05D4 05D1 05E2 05D9 05D4 .<br /> 0A

I'd say you have a problem with the method you have used to enter your Hebrew text.

[Gerry Kroll]

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I gave Thierry access to my "test" site that's usually not accessible from the Internet.

He was able to add a News block with Hebrew text, and the text displayed normally. I confirmed that the text was OK when viewed from my PC using FireFox and W2K.

We seem to have a server problem at Thierry's end. Possibly it's a mis-configuration.