[B-Greek] new use for a unicode tool/ doing the happy dance!!

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Mon Oct 10 12:16:26 EDT 2005


Hi again,

I'm glad you have the unicode dance down. :-)  Ειναι καλα -- see, 
unicode!  (EINAI KALA)

I don't know AOL's software, but yes I use unicode in emails.  I used to 
do in in Outlook and now I use Thunderbird (since Outlook 2k3 messed up 
some of the most important features of the program, aside from the 
security problems), with no special changes.  For chat I use Trillian 
where I can use Unicode, and ICQ supports foreign languages, it has a 
setting to choose a second language in it.  XP is a native unicode 
operating system anyway.

With AOL, you might look into what the default email encoding is and if 
that can be changed, you want UTF-8 (Unicode), or if it supports 
Auto-detect encoding, it will use unicode when you include unicode material.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com wrote the following on 10/10/2005 10:54 AM:

> 
>I didn't know that was there! Double happy  dance right now :-) It also says 
>something in the helpfile about handwriting  recognition. I'll have to play 
>with that too :-)
> 
>I still can't use it in AOL though :-0 What  am I doing wrong? You can type 
>in unicode Greek in your  e-mails?
> 
>Kat Doe
>homemaker
> 
> 
> 
>In a message dated 10/10/2005 10:31:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
>curtis at curtishinson.com writes:
>
>GEIA SOU  KAT     Γεια σου Κατ
>
>Why not use Window 98 or XP's  built-in support for this?  It has both 
>monotonic and polytonic Greek  support built in, with an indicator on the 
>taskbar, and you can switch  with Alt-Shift between languages.  Just go 
>to control panel in XP,  Regional and Language Options, Languages tab, 
>and click Details and add  the type of Greek support you want.  Many of 
>us use this on B-Greek  when we add Unicode versions of what we're 
>transliterating (for shorter  sections, for long quotes cut and paste 
>from some place like my site with  Unicode texts).  It works everywhere 
>too, I often use it to send  emails in Unicode Greek or type in chat 
>sessions in Unicode  Greek.
>
>Bless the Name
>Curtis  Hinson
>http://curtishinson.com
>
>
> 
>
>  
>




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