[B-Greek] Re- Change of prefered Language
gfsomsel at juno.com
gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Nov 22 00:24:49 EST 2004
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:57:26 -0600 "Steve Westfall"
<steve.westfall at comcast.net> writes:
> Perhaps he means that he would prefer that the biblical languages be
> represented in appropriate Greek and Hebrew fonts (presumably
> Unicode)
> instead of being transliterated into Latin characters?
>
> Steve Westfall
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That is the way I understood it. This would be nice. I'm not sure how
technologically feasible this might be at the moment. There is, of
course, the problem of fonts which could be solved by linking to a font
source appropriate to either the PC or the MAC platforms (Linux anyone?).
Beyond that there is the problem of members who have older systems which
may not be amenable to using these fonts. Also, a matter of not
inconsiderable concern, is the ability of all members to enter the text
in unicode. I happen to have a unicode word processor and so would have
no trouble. Additionally, there are quite a number of members who have
computer Bible study programs with texts in unicode which could be "cut
and pasted" into the text. Nevertheless, some members would be
disenfranchised by (1) their current computer (2) their resources on the
computer (3) their facility with a computer. I tend to think that though
this is an admirable goal, its time has not yet come.
george
gfsomsel
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