Hebrew (Modern New Testament) is bad

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Hi!
I'm from Israel (Jewish beleiver in Christ)
It's a well known problem with semetic languages.
Probably applying: dir="RTL" all over the Hebrew will solve it!

PLEASE & THANK YOU!

I appricace your work!!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sheep...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 4:03

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Hi,
I did turn on rtl in a previous version of and-bible but it was a mess and 
in-line Strongs references made it worse because of poor Android bidi support 
but I will look at turning this on again and see how it affects Hebrew (Modern 
New Testament).  If you can't wait you could go back to And Bible 0.0.13 
(http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list?can=1) which (I think) had 
rtl turned on for specific rtl documents.

I sympathise with Jewish people wrt the poor rtl language poor support in 
Android and in And Bible.  I do hope to provide better support for rtl 
languages in the future.

Martin

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 5:08

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Hi Martin!
First - THANKS!

Another issue is mixing words with numbers (in Hebrew) which also cause a mess, 
is it possible to try and make the numbers dissapear? in the OT in Hebrew 
everything is in letters...

1 = א (a)
2 = ב (b)
3 = ג (c)
....

Original comment by sheep...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 5:14

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I have done some more investigation into this and although Android 2.2 supports 
Hebrew, RTL support is not complete.  RTL will work if only consonants are 
displayed but as soon as a vowel is inserted the text direction becomes 
confused.

This is what I have seen through experiments and is confirmed in 
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1580#c149
"I'm running the froyo beta, and hebrew letters work, but in the browser RTL 
only works when there are only consonants."

I am not giving up but I need to think again now.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2010 at 7:19

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You will have a few thusand Israeli believers android users counting on you ;)
b.t.w what about just putting it up as image?

or, having a version without any punctuation ?

Tnx!

Original comment by sheep...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2010 at 8:29

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The Modern Hebrew Bible to which you originally referred does not seem to 
contain vowels.  Are native Hebrew speakers happy with no vowels?  Vowels are 
considered essential by English people I know who study the Tanakh.

I have done some tests on the Modern Hebrew Bible and found that the colon at 
the end of each verse also causes Android bidi problems but I think I can work 
around it.

Would you be happy to e-mail me direct so that I can reply with some screen 
prints for you to check (my Hebrew is almost nil)?  help.andbible@gmail.com 
comes direct to me and me alone.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2010 at 4:06

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I made some progress with Modern Hebrew which does not have Nikud/vowels 
pointing.

The following link mentions the Nikud issue and holds out hope for an 
improvement in the next Android update named Honeycomb: 
http://groups.google.com/group/android-contrib/browse_thread/thread/5b6b079f9ec7
792a?pli=1

Trying to guess when Honeycomb is due I notice that a Honeycomb tablet is due 
out Feb 11: 
http://tablets-planet.com/2010/12/30/motorolas-upcoming-android-honeycomb-tablet
-name-and-release-date-leaked/

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2010 at 4:10

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The removal of vowels and addition of the rtl tag, which was removed in a 
previous release, seems to have made Hebrew bible display acceptable.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2011 at 9:38

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Thank you for all the grat job you are doing!

Original comment by sheep...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2011 at 12:49