[B-Greek] Re: Change of prefered Language

gfsomsel at juno.com gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Nov 22 11:05:07 EST 2004


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:56:29 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 4:25 PM +0100 11/22/04, Wieland Willker wrote:
> >Raymond Regalado wrote:
> >> Allow me to go ahead and see if this works.
> >> This is in English.
> >> ??t?? est?? ?????????.
> >
> >Obviously not.
> >:-)
> 
> Actually it does show up as Greek unicode characters in the archives 
> at our
> web-site, but it shows mis-placed breathing marks and wrong
> accentuation--and that brings up a related problem with any of the 
> schemes
> of transliteration or use of Unicode: it takes a bit of acquired 
> skill (and
> patience in its acquisition) to key-in the Greek correctly: one must 
> KNOW
> the equivalent keys to use for each Greek character and/or combined
> characters, breathing-marks, accents, and subscripts. My experience 
> is that
> many composers of messages tend to take one short-cut or another, be 
> it
> their own guess-work transliteration scheme (e.g. "on" for hWN or 
> WN), or
> copy-and-paste from an on-line Greek text, or an attempt at 
> Unicode--and
> these efforts, more often than not, show up as gobbledygook in the 
> messages
> as displayed on our own screens.
> 
> >As long as almost all email messages from mailing lists and 
> discussion
> >groups are sent out in plain text format (at least as an option), 
> this
> >discussion is ahead of the times. Even if individual mails are 
> possible
> >in html, the daily digests are in plain text. Normally also the
> >archives.
> 
> In our case, the archives--and perhaps the HTML-digest format will 
> show up
> Unicode, but the individual messages as distributed by our 
> list-software
> will not. What Wieland says is really the simple (plain-text ASCII?) 
> truth.
> -- 
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
> ---

Actually, it came through fine when I read it (though I didn't check for
anything other than the fact that it was in a Greek font).  I
unfortunately deleted it so I can't go back to check my copy.  I think it
may depend upon what fonts are installed on the receiving computer as
well as one's ISP.

george
gfsomsel



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