[B-Greek] character test results so far
Glendon Gross
gross at clones.net
Mon Apr 11 13:38:41 EDT 2005
If I am not mistaken, the ability to read unicode fonts is a feature of
some mail clients and not others. Therefore, I believe Dr. Conrad wants
everyone to use the lists' transliteration guidelines so that all
participants can read and understand the Greek text.
Regards,
Glendon Gross
Cirk Bejnar wrote:
>--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>wrote:
>
>
>>>These Unicode fonts may work very well for messages
>>>
>>>
>>sent directly to
>>subscribers from the original senders but they won't
>>work for messages sent
>>to the list because the list software uses only
>>plain-text ASCII. And the
>>repeated experiments by list-members attempting to
>>use Unicode fonts for
>>list-correspondence are wasted effort because the
>>list is not ready for
>>them yet.
>>
>>
>
>I am confused by this statement, which Dr. Conrad has
>made before. The list software does _not_ convert the
>messages that it sends to me from Unicode to plain
>ASCII, because I can see the Greek fine, as I was able
>to see Dr. Buth's ü, and I am certainly not being
>cc'ed directly, ie I only get one copy of the message
>etc.
>
>Cirk R. Bejnar
>
>
>
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