[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:
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>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 :-)
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>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?
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>Kat Doe
>homemaker
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>In a message dated 10/10/2005 10:31:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>curtis at curtishinson.com writes:
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>GEIA SOU KAT Γεια σου Κατ
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>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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