[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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