[B-Greek] character test results so far
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Tue Apr 12 21:06:56 EDT 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Cirk Bejnar
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:28 PM
> To: Carl W. Conrad; B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] character test results so far
>
>
> --- "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
Cirk,
I think you're confusing two distinctions: (1) plain (unformatted) text vs.
formatted text (HTML or "rich text"); (2) and ASCII (one-byte characters
from a set of 128 or 256 characters) vs. Unicode (two-byte characters from a
set of over 65,000 possibilities, including Greek characters).
What you've seen in the posts you refer to is plain-text Unicode. It works
for you because your system and application software are Unicode capable.
James Ernest
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