[B-Greek] UTF

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Jan 7 12:07:20 EST 2005


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:43:12 -0500 Jim West <jwest at highland.net> writes:
> Listers,
> is there any way of converting a true type font to a UTF font (or is 
> that 
> even possible)?  I have a font (greek parse) and wish to use it on a 
> greek 
> course for the web- so instead of asking students to d/l the 
> particular 
> font I understand that most computers now read UTF.
> 
> I apologize for the ignorance of the question and its probably not 
> even put 
> rightly.
> 
> Jim
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I'm assuming that you're talking about changing the coding for a Greek
legacy font (one that uses the same keyboard mapping as, e.g. English) so
that it is unicode compliant.  There is not problem with reassigning the
glyphs to different codes, but I've certainly never done it so I don't
know how much difficulty there would be.  I suspect that there would be
more problem with receiving permission from the copyright holder to do
so.  But why go to this bother?  There are a number of unicode fonts
which cover polytonic Greek so there is no need to do so unless you have
special needs  such as Wieland Wilker mentioned with his presentation of
the early codices of the NT.  I believe it was Ken Penner who mentioned a
program which could convert these legacy texts to unicode (you would
still need to use one of the newer unicode fonts, not the same old font).
 What is involved in this is basically a search and replace operation.

george
gfsomsel
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