The Hebrew Hackers
We noted way back when that the iPhone lacked the ability to display either Hebrew or Arabic characters in Mobile Safari. Fortunately, a group from Israel has taken matters into their own hands to enable the display of Hebrew on the iPhone so you can browse the Tanakh until your heart’s content.
They’ve posted instructions which seem to merely involve copying the appropriate fonts from your computer onto your (jailbroken/hacked) iPhone. Or at least I’ve divined from the screenshots: the instructions themselves are actually in Hebrew, so I can’t really confirm or deny. But that does seem to gibe with what others have written about the lack of Hebrew and Arabic, and it makes sense, given that the iPhone can display other character sets with little problem.
If you can read Hebrew and care to shed some light on the process, drop us a note in the comments below.
[via Gizmodo]
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Guide: Addition of Hebrew to the iPhone. All rights are reserved to the site iPhones.co.il
Before you is a guide-how to add Hebrew to the iPhone.
Warning!! All of the changes that you will effect are your responsibility alone!! In the event that it will cause any damage to the device the responsibility is yours alone and there will be no claims against the writer of this post, or the site iPhones.co.il.
The attached file with Hebrew is the fruit of the work of the site operators of iPhones.co.il and Avner Peled [name]. All rights are reserved.
1-Connect the device to the Sync stand, connect the USB to the computer and connect to the internet
2-Approach the device
Home - > Settings - > General - > Auto Lock - > then select Never
3-Run the program WinSCP which you can download from here [Damn those Windows centric Israelis!]
4-Clarify the IP of the iPhone (I hope that you have a wireless router)
enter in the device to-
Home - > Settings -> General - > Network - > WIFI - > check your network ->
write your IP address
Mine is 192.68.1.9
5-Run the program WinSCP and provide the data like in the attached picture
6-Click LOGIN and after that OK
7- You should get to this screen
8-Find the folder as is illustrated in the picture
System/Library/Fonts/Cache
9-Download the file arialuni.ttf (It’s in a ZIP) The folowing file was built by Avner Peled and Eli. All rights are reserved!!
Hebrew
10-Open the ZIP (password-the name of our site without the co.il)
11-Save it to the Desktop
12-Copy it into
System/Library/Fonts/Cache
13-Follow the Screenshots
14-Perform a RESTART on the iPhone (push the POWER button until there is a message for turning off the device, turn it off and turn it on again)
15-Mazal Tov [Congratulations] you have Hebrew
For all reactions and questions, please enter the forum
http://www.iphones.co.il/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26
N.B. Translation provided by Eli Ungar-Sargon
In the spirit of the above...All rights reserved ;)
Posted by Eli Ungar-Sargon | August 28, 2007 8:43 PM
hahaha...
Posted by adamyonk | August 30, 2007 1:23 AM
THANKS!!! this rocks!! thank you sooo much!
Posted by Ozy | October 15, 2007 10:54 AM