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A while ago when I was testing my weblog's Unicode support I wanted to find a copy of the Shema (‏שְׁמַ) of Deuteronomy 6:4. It turns out sacred-texts.com has a Hebrew copy online:

‏שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֶחָד

This is coming up now, of course, because Deuteronomy 6 is where I am in my new favorite translation's "Through the Bible in a year" program

Only, some combining characters (vowels) don't seem to be exactly right and the RtL text is being funky in my browser's text editor. Also, I don't think I've ever seen anyone spell out Adonai before.

Oh, and incidentally, Matthew Henry's entire commentary is available online.

Update: This Hebrew text has behaved differently on every browser and system I've tried it on. It's disappointing.

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23:35 (utc-5)
edited: 2005-03-10 06:07 (utc-5)

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If it is RTL you should use the DIR attribute or the Unicode characters. I believe HTML is the preferred way to handle it.

Also, your URI does not seem to be UTF-8 encoded. And it really should be if you are planning to use IRIs someday.

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