[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek

Wieland Willker willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
Fri Dec 10 03:11:12 EST 2004


As I already said, I accept Unicode as a probably superior alternative
for Greek on websites. 
But else? What will happen to all those Hundreds of beautifully designed
special fonts? How easily can they be converted into Unicode? 
I have many documents where these fonts are needed. The correct
spacings, tabs etc. will only work with these fonts. 
What is the future? Times-Arial-Gentium only?

Currently I cannot think of using Unicode. It is just too complicated
(for me). I have to invest large amounts of time. Perhaps this sounds
arrogant, but I am not really interested that every novice can correctly
read my webpages. It is quite specialized material and those who are
really interested in it will find ways to get it right. 
Don't get me wrong, it would probably be better to have it in Unicode,
but it is currently beyond my capabilities. 

Best wishes
    Wieland
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Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
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