[B-Greek] Unicode vs. Older Software - A Survey
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 12 13:03:12 EDT 2005
At 7:37 AM -0700 4/12/05, William Zeitler wrote:
>What if we just agree to include our usual ASCII transliteration as well?
It's often difficult to get list-members to do even that, although I think
it would be a good thing. I'm a Eudora reader who would switch off of it if
that's what is agreed upon.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Robie
>Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:51 AM
>To: b-greek
>Subject: [B-Greek] Unicode vs. Older Software - A Survey
>
>
>We're exploring whether we could allow Unicode on B-Greek. As I currently
>understand it, the main problem is that Eudora does not support Unicode, and
>there are probably a few other older email programs that do not. I do think
>that there is value to using Unicode as soon as we can do this without
>excluding any significant number of our participants, so I want to explore
>options.
>
>Most web-based email - Google mail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc. - handles
>Unicode correctly, and the B-Greek archives handle Unicode correctly. If
>your email client does not handle Unicode, would you be willing to read
>B-Greek email using either web-based email or the archives?
>
>Feel free to say "no" if this would not be acceptable. I'm just exploring
>the options.
>
>Jonathan
>List Owner, B-Greek
>
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