[B-Greek] Re: Unicode vs. Older Software - A Survey

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Apr 13 03:51:15 EDT 2005


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:42:06 +0200 "Wieland Willker"
<willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de> writes:
> 1. Does it work with the digest?
> 2. I have the latest version on IE6 on XP and the accented letters 
> show up only as squared boxes in the online archive. 
> 3. I doubt seriously that searching will be easier using Unicode. 
> The ASCII convention is easy, accepted and works good. 
> Today, still, you have to use ASCII, otherwise you can never be 
> certain what they will see on their screen. I have recently changed 
> to Unicode for a while, but got in all things of trouble because my 
> communication partners (even publishing houses) didn't see it the 
> way I had it. 
> 
> Best wishes
>     Wieland
>        <><
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> Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
> mailto:willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
> http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie
> Textcritical commentary: 
> http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/index.html
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For polytonic Greek to appear properly, you not only need to have a
suitable font installed on your computer, but you need to configure your
<Tools | Internet Options> <Fonts> to use that font.  It sounds as though
you may have missed a step.

george
gfsomsel
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