[B-Greek] Re: Comparing Unicode fonts

William Zeitler william at faithfulbible.com
Thu Feb 10 13:43:24 EST 2005


>Klingon is currently _not_ slated to be included

'Klingon' was intended to be tongue in cheek, but of course the fantasy
community would actually be interested in that!

>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.

Exactly!!!!

>People's attemps to
send Unicode Greek have worked so far as long as I set
the encoding manually to UTF-8.

Being MBCS (multi-byte character set) this should theoretically be backwards
compatible with plain ASCII (if I understand aright). But I've been
reluctant to change that setting in my email client without setting aside
some testing time as I'm concerned about unforseen side-effects on regular
ASCII/English email with those that DON'T have their email set to UTF-8
(like with my clients that pay my bills).

Any experience/observations?

And if you set your email to UTF-8, what are the options for ENTERING Greek
text?

(I'm on Windows XP, using Outlook).

You know, a page on options for Newbies (like me) would be great (with the
ugly plain ASCII option, then other options listed for various platforms).
Maybe there already is a page like this. If not, I'd be happy to prepare and
post such a page on my website. (I'd need input, however.)

Thanks,

william zeitler

-----Original Message-----
From: Cirk Bejnar [mailto:eluchil404 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:21 AM
To: William Zeitler; B-Greek List
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Re: Comparing Unicode fonts



--- 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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