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2 33 17_shortest pangrams14_Jay F Shachter16_jay@m5.chi.il.us36_Sun, 23 Apr 200 09:33:50 -0600 (CDT)481_US-ASCII What is the shortest meaningful sentence in Hebrew that uses all 22 letters of the alphabet?<br><br>What is the shortest meaningful sentence in Hebrew that uses all 27 glyphs (the 22 nonterminal letters and the 5 final letters)?<br><br>In the English language you can construct a 26-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters; but if you stay away from words like "waqf" I think the shortest meaningful sentence is "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" (31 letters). [...]
36 270 52_unknown character in the ancient Phoenician alphabet14_Jay F Shachter16_jay@m5.chi.il.us37_Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:35:46 -0500 (CDT)400_- I have a screen dump of a font (which I shall include herewith as a GIF file attachment, for those of you who are able to read GIF file attachments) in which I recognize the letters of the alphabet, but there is one character that I do not recognize. If you are capable of displaying or printing out the attached GIF file, you will locate this unknown character right after the 3/4 character. [...]
307 21 56_Re: unknown character in the ancient Phoenician alphabet7_Sefarad21_sefarad@geocities.com31_Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:53:02 -0400460_US-ASCII I recognise all the other characters except this one. Sorry. But by the way, ifs this font for a Hebrew system? I am looking for an ancient Hebrew font that i can use in a Macintosh with Hebrew system.<br><br>Hag sameach!<br><br>Frantz<br><br>------------------------ heblang@shamash.org -----------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium http://shamash.org ------------------------ heblang@shamash.org -----------------------=