I tried what you suggested to open my Dagesh files and some of the Hebrew text was interpreted incorrectly. What should I do?
Because there are several different file versions of the Dagesh file format, DavkaWriter does not always interpret these correctly. If this is the case, follow the instructions above for opening a Dagesh document in DavkaWriter, but instead of using the Original method, try using Method 2 or Method 3. If neither of these seem to work, you can then try Auto Detect – this interprets all characters in the lower half of the ASCII character set as English, and all characters in the upper half as Hebrew. While this is not always correct (for example, accented letters and some special punctuation are in the upper half, and a few Hebrew characters are in the lower half), this usually produces quite satisfactory results. If you know the document is only Hebrew or only English, you can use the Force Hebrew or Force English choices. I was able to open my Dagesh files in DavkaWriter, but there are still some things that are wrong – the parentheses are backwards and the numbers are backwards (or sq
