[B-Greek] character test results so far

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 13 11:48:23 EDT 2005


William Zeitler wrote:

>Alas, it's not quite that simple. UTF-8 -- the recommended encoding method
>for Unicode on this thread -- still represents the ASCII character set using
>8-bit characters (one of its great virtues -- it's 'backwards compatible'
>that way) and uses longer byte sequences as necessary for polytonic greek.
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>
Yes, this is accurate.

>The unaccented greek characters are in the 'upper' ASCII character set
>(128-255 -- because they are used in math, etc.) which is why those will
>generally appear correctly, even in non-unicode capable browsers/email
>clients/etc., even if the accented greek characters do not.
>  
>
Strangely, some clients don't seem to get even this right...

Jonathan
List Owner, B-Greek



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