Topic: Hebrew text turned into gibberish

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January 16, 2014 4:48 pm at 4:48 pm #611867

SayIDidIt™
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SiDi™

January 16, 2014 5:10 pm at 5:10 pm #998847

akuperma
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Make sure that all devices and program are using the same system for coding Hebrew, and that both devices have compatible Hebrew fonts installed. The gibberish means they weren’t using the same system (as when a unicode document gets downloaded into the older ASCII standard), or that the Hebrew support hadn’t been activated.

January 16, 2014 5:28 pm at 5:28 pm #998848

ujew
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Assuming that you’re trying to view the file in Windows, try these instructions from Microsoft:

1) Open Region and Language by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Clock, Language, and Region, and then clicking Region and Language.

2) Click the Administrative tab, and then, under Language for non-Unicode programs, click Change system locale. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3) Select the language, and then click OK.

To restart your computer, click Restart now.

Let us know how it goes

January 16, 2014 5:33 pm at 5:33 pm #998849

HaLeiVi
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If you have an idea of what it said you can search and replace letter by letter. If it is not private and you post it here, perhaps I can help.

January 17, 2014 8:11 am at 8:11 am #998850

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The Palm used Windows-1255 encoding. Your sample translates to ?.?.?????. You need to convert it to UTF-8 or Unicode.

January 17, 2014 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm #998851

HaLeiVi
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An easy way to follow through with Dash®’s advice is to change the file name to .html and to the top of the page add the following :

<META charset=windows-1255 >

January 18, 2014 8:38 pm at 8:38 pm #998852

SayIDidIt™
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Another Q:

A friend told me that when he saves a Word doc, it makes two copies. Why is that and how to stop it?

Thanks all for your help and (tech) support!!

January 19, 2014 4:48 am at 4:48 am #998853

HaLeiVi
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Copy it from the html file and paste in into a new .txt file. Then go to SaveAs and choose UTF-8 in the ANSI type box.

January 19, 2014 2:31 pm at 2:31 pm #998854

SayIDidIt™
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About the saving 2 copies of Word documents, its saving a regular doc and making a backup copy automatically. Using Office 97 or something…

SiDi™

January 19, 2014 3:54 pm at 3:54 pm #998855

HaLeiVi
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The backup, which has the name of ~001WRD.doc or something like that is from the autosave. If you don’t close the file normally it can get it from there.
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