The tests below help identify to what degree your web browser currently supports our best practices for displaying Unicode (UTF-8) Hebrew text in web pages using CSS @font-face in HTML and SVG files. Based on our test results, as of February 2012, the only web browsers passing all of our Unicode/CSS @font-face Hebrew tests are the following:
- Chrome 15 on Windows OS
- Internet Explorer 9 on Windows OS
(See our test results to see how well your browser supports Hebrew on the web.)
The tests reveal errors in the way web browsers render bidirectional text in Right-To-Left (RTL) languages like Hebrew with or without CSS @font-face. I wrote these tests to guide web browser developers and site developers in better supporting Hebrew on the web. If you are a site developer, read my guide on How-to Display Unicode Hebrew Text using CSS @font-face.
For these tests, I chose a verse from a book of the Hebrew Bible containing all the letters of the Aleph-Bet — Zephania 3:8. Shorter pangrams exist, but none include vowels (niqud) and cantillation marks (ta'amim). Not all the cantillation marks in the unicode Hebrew character set are represented in the pangram, but the benefit of the verse is that it shows the positioning logic of the diacritical marks in practice.
The Tests
If you would like to see all these tests on one page, click here.
Testing was reported mainly by testers on the opensiddur-tech discussion list. Many thanks to everyone who contributed test results. (Click here if you would like to contribute test results.)
To learn more on the best practices for displaying Hebrew text in web browsers, check here.
If you are looking for the Open Siddur unicode and open source font pack, see here.
If you are looking for instructions on how to set up your keyboard and fonts to type in Hebrew, see here.
Next: Browser Configuration Tests Overview
Hebrew font Browser Test version 0.70 by Aharon Varady for The Open Siddur Project (November 2011).Please help to improve these tests. All source for this page that might be protected under copyright, is shared with a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license.
