[B-Greek] character test results so far

Norbert Rennert norbert.rennert at sil.org
Mon Apr 11 13:50:09 EDT 2005


I agree with Cirk. I can see the greek characters coming through on 
several occasions and I only subscribe to the list and don't get 
messages through another path. Maybe what needs to be done is to take a 
survey of which email clients and os platforms people are using and make 
recommendations on both. I'm sure that there are unicode compatible 
email programs available for  all computing platforms. It would be so 
much nicer if we could read the actual greek characters instead of 
transliterations.

Norbert Rennert
Canada Institute of Linguistics

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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