[B-Greek] OT e-Mail Fonts

william zeitler william at faithfulbible.com
Fri Jun 10 20:20:19 EDT 2005


In my mind there's no question that 5 years from now or so (just to pick a 
plausible number) unicode will be nearly universal for our sort of 
application. (See http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html )

But meanwhile we're dealing with a lot of folks with older machines, older 
software, and/or current software that's non-obvious how to get it 
configured. All of which are non-trivial expenses in time and/or money. As 
time and globalization inexorably move forward, these issues will sort 
themselves out. We're not the only ones that need to represent non-Latin 
character sets!

Meanwhile, as annoying as ASCII transliteration can be, today it works on 
everyone's machine, regardless of software and operating system, Mac, Windows 
and Linux/Unix (what I'm creating this email on), and has zero configuration 
hassles. And switching to unicode will only really work if EVERYONE switches. 
Even though I'm a 'computer professional' I'd still rather spend my spare 
time reading and talking about Greek on this forum than futzing with my 
machine, hoping that everyone else futzes with theirs too! Ugh!

Just my $0.02

william zeitler
third rock from the Sun

On Friday 10 June 2005 04:43 pm, bertdehaan at sympatico.ca wrote:
>  Carl Conrad wrote:
>
> 2. Personally I don't see that typing Unicode Greek is really any
> easier than using the conventional
> BG transliteration scheme: you have to press the appropriate key to
> get the right Greek character, and
> even if you don't use breathings and accents (althought we do try to
> indicate a rough breathing
> with "h"), you have to know the keyboard for typing the Unicode Greek
> characters. I honestly don't
> think that's a great deal easier than learning to use the
> transliteration scheme.
> ========
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