[B-Greek] Re: Unicode vs. Older Software - A Survey: Oops!
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Thu Apr 14 07:34:45 EDT 2005
Courier New. My system has version 2.90 of this font, and it displays
polytonic Greek correctly in Notepad and Word.
James Ernest
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ken Penner
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:23 PM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Re: Unicode vs. Older Software - A
> Survey: Oops!
>
>
> 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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