[B-Greek] Unicode Greek and getting there
sandra hack polaski
shpolaski at btsr.edu
Thu Feb 3 12:16:40 EST 2005
Thanks to all who responded to my post of several weeks back about moving to
Unicode Greek. A summary of what I've learned and discovered:
1. Start with Rodney Decker's webpage
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm#Test and read "What a Biblical
Scholar/Student Should Know About Unicode." It's the best summary I've seen
for those of us who aren't fluent in the ways of computers; reading it has
even made me able to explain Unicode to others.
2. Get help downloading what you need, if you wish; but don't assume that
the computer folks at your place (especially if you're at a small place)
understand as much about Unicode as you do (having read Rodney's paper). The
person working with me was quite happy to download and install fonts for me,
but told me I should see if they were working first before installing
Keyman...
3. Unicode really is the wave of the future, and those of us who expect
everyone else to learn to communicate in our languages (or at least in
languages that use Roman characters) need to wake up and smell the chai, or
rice wine, or whatever it is...
And now one more question: where do I find programs that convert documents
typed in other fonts to Unicode? I've got lots of course materials in SGreek
(from Silver Mountain, the Bible Windows folks), and I'm hoping not to type
them over again. (I have, by the way, downloaded the Unicode NT and
Septuagint that Rodney mentions in a footnote of his paper, so when I need
NT text, it's right here on my computer.)
--Sandra Hack Polaski
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Richmond, Virginia
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