[B-Greek] character test results so far

Patrick Narkinsky patrick at narkinsky.com
Mon Apr 11 11:11:11 EDT 2005


Just a note, since I know that there are many Mac users on this list.  I use
entourage for my email, and I found that the unicode would not work with
some fonts that I would expect to work, and would work with others.

Specifically:

"Monotype" (the entourage default) did NOT work.
"New Athena Unicode" did NOT work (???why???)
"Courier New" DID work.

I honestly have no clue why Athena wouldn't work ... I would be really
interested in an opinion from those who are more comfortable with Unicode
than I.

Patrick Narkinsky
Pastor
Mount Hermon Baptist Church (Mineral, VA)


> From: James Tauber <jtauber at jtauber.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:46:24 -0400
> To: b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] character test results so far
> 
> 
> For the u-umlaut, there were two categories of people:
> 
> A. all 4 worked
> B. 1 & 2 worked; 3 & 4 gave garbage characters
> 
> For the Greek, there were three categories of people:
> 
> A1. 1 & 2 gave question marks; 3 & 4 worked fine
> A2. 1 & 2 gave question marks; 3 worked fine; 4 had boxes for accented
> characters
> B. 1 & 2 gave question marks; 3 & 4 gave garbage characters
> 
> People in category A for the u-umlaut were in A1 or A2 for the Greek. People
> in category B for the u-umlaut were in category B for the Greek.
> 
> The diagnosis:
> 
> A/A1 - everything is working as expected.
> A/A2 - encoding-wise things are fine, you email software just isn't using a
> Unicode font with polytonic Greek
> 
> B/B - your email software is incorrectly interpreting the character encoding
> of UTF-8 mail as ISO-8859 (or similar)
> 
> 
> If you fall into category B/B, let me know what email software you are using
> and what operating system you run.
> 
> If your results don't fall into any of the categories, let me know too.
> 
> 
> James Tauber
> 
> 
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