Thank you. The unicode text looked good (although reversed left-to-right as I sent it) in my sent mail, and it looked perfect (corrected right-to-left) in your response.  But it did not look good in the digest email (all the letters were convered to ?'s).  

Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt except for the vowel placement.  Any suggestions there?  Thank you again.

Yours,
Michael



On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
Greetings, Michael,


On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:11 -0600, Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu> wrote:

Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list?

Your Unicode text came through perfectly:


\textdir TRT
\hebrew
לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָבְצִי מַמְלָכוֹת לִשְׁפֹּךְ עֲלֵיהֶם זַעְמִי כֹּל חֲרוֹן אַפִּי כִּי בְּאֵשׁ קִנְאָתִי תֵּאָכֵל כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃
\stoptext

Maybe the encoding of your browser/mail-client needs to be set to "Unicode" ("Automatic" usually works too).

For high-level text-direction control, you may experiment with

\righttoleft
\lefttoright

as well as

\setupdirections[bidi=global]
\setupdirections[bidi=local]

Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523



--
Michael Ash, Chair, Department of Economics
Professor of Economics and Public Policy         
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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