[B-Greek] OT e-Mail Fonts

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu Jun 9 14:47:15 EDT 2005


At 08:11 AM 6/9/2005 -0400, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Bob Firth wrote:
>>Some email programs (e.g. Eudora) seem to have decided not to  
>>support unicode! Other people just have old software, so a  
>>transliteration version would be important, but not because people  
>>like reading transliteration in particular (though I think some  
>>people who have been around this list for a while do seem very  
>>comfortable with it).
>
>We had this discussion a couple months ago (April) about switching  
>over to
>Unicode.  What we discovered in that go-round is that plain-text  
>UTF-8 characters WILL come through
>clearly both in the BG archives and in e-mail of users with programs  
>that recognize it. I think there's a
>strong probability that we WILL go there, although it's our list- owner, Jonathan Robie, who must decide
>just how soon it may be. In preparation for that I have myself  
>abandoned Eudora with great reluctance
>and started using Apple's Mail.app because Mail.app WILL read UTF-8  
>Unicode Greek and Eudora still
>hasn't gotten to that point.

I've recently learned that there is a free plug-in for Eudora
that supports Unicode (UTF-8).  It is available at:

http://www.windharp.de/software/utf8iso.htm

I have not tried or tested this yet, so I don't know anything
more about it.

Stephen Carlson 
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