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

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Apr 13 12:22:38 EDT 2005


Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your reply, and I am aware of the fonts you mention (although I think Arial Unicode MS might only come with Office). 
However, I was asking specifically about *monospaced* fonts, and even more specifically, about monospaced fonts that appear in *IE*'s font list for *"Plain text font"*s. Let me know if you find any such free fonts that work for viewing the accented Greek in the archives (which use the <PRE> HTML tags) using IE.

Ken

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Greek), M.A. (Hebrew), 
Ph.D. cand., McMaster University
Coordinator, Funk's Grammar Digitization Project
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Greek vocabulary software: http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flash_pro/join


> >With Windows XP, Firefox displays the accented Greek fine.
> >However, IE does not perform as well. IE will display boxes 
> for the accented Greek, unless you set IE's "Plain text font" 
> to one of fonts that include accented Greek. The only such 
> monospaced font IE gives me as an option is Everson Mono 
> Unicode (http://www.evertype.com/emono/), which is shareware 
> for 20 Euros. If anyone knows of a free monospaced extended 
> Greek Unicode font that IE recognizes as a "Plain text font", 
> I and probably many others on this list would be interested.
> >  
> >
> On XP, I think you probably have Lucida Sans Unicode and 
> Arial Unicode 
> MS pre-installed - at least I do.
> 
> SIL Galatia Unicode is a nice font that is also freely available:




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