Biblical Hebrew fonts on Ipad

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segerblomma Author

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Biblical Hebrew fonts on Ipad

Hi!

I'm planning to buy an ipad. Right now I am running Anki on my macbook

and my android 2.3 phone - it works wonderful.

But will there be problems with an ipad - as I have understood it - it

is impossible to install fonts in the same way as in Android (just

drag and drop into a folder) without jailbreaking the ipad (which I

really do not want to). Anyone that has the same problem? It's not

just solved by switching to hebrew language on the ipad, because

modern hebrew does not have wovels...

/ Martin

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 6:15 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 11, 2012 10:24 AM in response to segerblomma

What is Anki?

It is correct, you cannot install either fonts or keyboards on an iPad.

But the iPad does already include Unicode fonts with Hebrew vowels, so such text can be displayed OK. The screen keyboard does not have any vowels, but you can make them if you use a bluetooth hardware keyboard. Also there are two apps, Unicode Map and UniKey, which let you make custom screen keyboards that can be used directly for some purposes and via copy/paste for others.

Unfortunately the app Pages has bugs that make it unsuitable for Hebrew for many purposes.

There is no way to support ascii-encoded Hebrew, only Unicode.

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