[B-Greek] Macs and Yahoo Messenger
David Anderson
sarxws at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 23:46:33 EDT 2006
If you would like I can see if my mac does the same thing, that way I
could troubleshoot the problem more effectively. I am downloading
yahoo messenger now. Unless you would rather not, I would like to
start a chat with both of you and try to duplicate the problem and see
where it goes from there.
David
Mobile, Alabama
On 8/24/06, Christopher Shelton <christophershelt at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> We have tried everything and nothing works. She sees Arial Unicode MS, our
> common font, we see boxes. We see (send to her) Arial Unicode MS, she sees
> slashes and plus signs, etc.
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Anderson" <sarxws at gmail.com>
> To: "Thomas Thackery" <tthackery at gmail.com>
> Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Macs and Yahoo Messenger
>
>
> > If she is using a specific type of font that does not come on all macs -
> > you
> > will have to download that font as well. The problem seems to me that the
> > code is not getting lost in Yahoo, rather the receiving computer does not
> > have the code to interpret the message.
> >
> > Find out what font she is typing in, get it and install it on the
> > receiving
> > computer, if that does not work let me know and I will try to find
> > something
> > out.
> >
> > David Anderson
> > MacBook Pro 2.16 Ghz
> > B.A. Philosophy & Theology
> > Mobile, Alabama
> >
> >
> > On 8/23/06, Thomas Thackery <tthackery at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I've had great success with AdiumX (http://www.adiumx.com/).
> >>
> >> Thomas Thackery
> >> California, USA
> >>
> >> On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Curtis Hinson wrote:
> >>
> >> I use Trillian Pro on my Yahoo! IM account, and my fiancee uses the
> >> regular Yahoo IM client. I am able to type in Unicode any language and
> >> she gets it. I imagine there are other clients for Mac that can connect
> >> to the Yahoo network besides Yahoo's own, so if you can't work it out
> >> that might be worth a google.
> >>
> >> Bless the Name
> >> Curtis Hinson
> >> http://adfontes.ath.cx/
> >> http://curtishinson.com
> >>
> >> Christopher Shelton wrote the following on 8/23/2006 11:12 PM:
> >> > To One and All--
> >> > I started this recent flurry of activity over the font
> >> > question and Macs, for better or ill. My poor colleague has found
> >> > a number of ways that allow her to type Greek, complete with
> >> > diacritical marks. However, our group uses Yahoo Messenger and
> >> > when she sends me Instant Messages the code is lost. She has all
> >> > the fonts installed and everything is good at her end, but the code
> >> > is lost when it travels through the Yahoo Messenger carrier.
> >> > I found this to be a problem when trying to save the logs--
> >> > even with Windows and an IBM-compatible PC--until someone suggested
> >> > something that worked very well. I'm hoping someone might have an
> >> > answer for this poor soul, who has been struggling with this for
> >> > days now. Thanking you in advance.
> >> > Christopher Shelton
> >> > Fort Lauderdale
> >> > christophershelt at bellsouth.net
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