[B-Greek] Re: Comparing Unicode fonts
Cirk Bejnar
eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 10 13:21:22 EST 2005
--- William Zeitler <william at faithfulbible.com> wrote:
> I personally have not entirely converted to unicode
> yet. I deeply appreciate
> the agony involved. But in the very near future
> we'll be able to have
> (ancient) polytonic Greek next to Klingon next to
> Kanji in the same document
> with nary a thought. On this very email group!
> Imagine! Then we won't need
> to waste any more brain cpu-cycles or emails on
> issues like this!
>
> william zeitler
Two, perhaps, irrelavant observations. First, Klingon
is currently _not_ slated to be included in Unicode
since in actual use people use the ASCII equivalents
rather than the fantasy characters. Second, one
reason that so many people here, including myself, are
fans of Unicode is that we see the oportunity to use
it everyday here on b-greek. This is a bi-lingual
forum English/Koine Greek and so the ASCII standard
requires us to use a rather cumbersome workaround to
communicate, but with Unicode there are no such
problems. English is English (or rather Roman
alphabet) and Greek is Greek. I don't know how close
we are but I think not very far. People's attemps to
send Unicode Greek have worked so far as long as I set
the encoding manually to UTF-8.
Cirk R. Bejnar
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