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

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 14 10:27:02 EDT 2005


Thanks, James,

You found this faster than I did. Anybody know a free monospace font 
that can be downloaded from somewhere for a system that doesn't have it?

Jonathan

James Ernest wrote:

>Courier New. My system has version 2.90 of this font, and it displays
>polytonic Greek correctly in Notepad and Word.
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>James Ernest
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>>-----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!
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>>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
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>>>>With Windows XP, Firefox displays the accented Greek fine. 
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>>However, 
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>>>>IE does not perform as well. IE will display boxes
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>>>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.
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>>>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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