Hebrew Letters Look Like Jibberish -with Video Instructions

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	Hebrew Letters Look Like Jibberish -with Video Instructions

Solution If you do not see "normal" Hebrew letters, and instead see things like cent-signs or British pounds signs, or other "special characters", then please follow the instructions below. Our install program is supposed to set this up properly, but on a small number of customers, this problem arises and we have never been able to reproduce it on any of our computers.

The safest thing is to manually delete and re-install all the fonts that start with the word "Hebrew". It sounds like maybe they didnâ€™t automatically get installed (or that maybe you deleted them?).

The steps below fix this problem in almost every circumstance!

First, check to see what is installed:

There are six fonts pairs (each with and without vowels), and a 13th font called Hebrew Learn Cursive.

Go to Settings, Control Panel, Fonts, at this point, I prefer "View Details".

Page down till you get to "Hebr". The "Nov" means NoVowels.

You should see the following fonts:

Hebr Nov Ancient, Hebr Nov Bold, Hebr Nov Cursive, Hebr Nov HandWriting,
Hebr Nov Rashi, Hebr Nov Ruth, Hebrew Ancient, Hebrew Bold, Hebrew Book Type,
Hebrew Cursive, Hebrew HandWriting, Hebrew Learn Cursive, Hebrew Rashi, Hebrew Ruth

If any of these are missing, click on File, Install New Font, then navigate to the directory where you installed Hebrew (default is C:\HEBREW4). This should cause all .TTF files (True Type Fonts) to be listed. Click on the "Select All" button, then OK to install them.

If any of them are already installed, you will have to just pick the ones that are not installed

SEE our video here for a tutorial on how to make this correction on Windows Vista:
Windows Vista Font Tutorial

If you need details instructions on install fonts, here they are:

1. Click Start â€“ Click Control Panel â€“ Click Fonts
2. Click â€œFileâ€ at the top left, then click on â€œinstall new fontsâ€.
3. In the folders window at the left, navigate to D:\fonts (where you can substitute the drive letter of your CD drive if it is not D:â€
4. When you find the right directory, the 12 or so fonts in that directory should appear at the top where it says â€œList of Fontsâ€ (fonts always end with the name .TTF when you view them on the disk, but here they will probably show just the first part or a more â€œfriendlyâ€ name.
5. Highlight all the fonts â€“ hold down shift and click the right arrow until all the fonts are highlighted in blue.
6. Click OK.

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17 Mar 2009 11:52 PM