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Thursday, September 30, 2021

converting old hebrew,reversed or gibberish to readable hebrew using Pixiesoft's flip

Every now and then I find myself opening an old text file, and face old hebrew that isn't readable. 

We are not talking here about lacking hebrew support for non-unicode programs (which is a problem that can be sorted out easily going to control panel\time & language settings\ language \ administrative language settings  - 

screen shot of the administrative language settings window

and changing the system locale ). 

No, we are talking on situations where the file's contents is some form of older hebrew text that has matching problmes of the types of yester-years, such as DOS/Windows, visual/logical, encoding issues, RTL/LTR and other issues which create a situation where an old file is displayed as gibberish or reversed. 

It can be so annoying, and therefore it was such a relief to find a reliable service. Having run into Pixiesoft's online Flip tool a few years ago, I've happily used it several times and found it very helpful. 

Now, that I've realized that for some reason, it isn't as easy as it should be to find this very useful conversion tool using internet search, I thought such a post would provide a useful record for me, and it might also help others who need a useful free internet service to convert older Hebrew texts. 




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