[B-Greek] Reading gibberish

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jun 8 19:15:12 EDT 2007


In all probability you need to alter your TEXT ENCODING for such  
messages to "Unicode (UTF-8)" I don't know what mail program you're  
using -- it may very well be one that doesn't (yet) handle Unicode. I  
dropped Eudora a couple years ago for precisely that reason and  
adopted a program that does handle Unicode. BUT in the case of  
individual messages if you run into this sort of gobbledygook, you  
ought to check the "text encoding" in your "message" menu (different  
perhaps for different mail programs) and set that so that it will  
accept UTF-8 Unicode.

On the other hand, it looks like you couldn't even display the plain- 
text ASCII properly. You need to experiment with your settings. It  
may be that you need to change your mail program to something that  
(a) is easily adjusted, (b) accepts Unicode text encoding.

On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Delbert Flora wrote:

> Please pardon me if this has been discussed but I am seeing more  
> and more postings like what I see below....nothing but gibberish.  
> Is there a setting I need to adjust at my end (with hotmail)?
>
>> Luke 5:35 ἐλεύσονται δὲ  
>> ἡμέραι, καὶ
>> á½
> ταν ἀπαρθῇ ἀπ᾿ Π
> ±á½Ï„ῶν ὁ νÏ
> μφίος,
>> τότε νηστεύσοÏ
> σιν ἐν ἐκείναις
>> ταῖς ἡμέραις.  36  
>> Ἔλεγεν δὲ καὶ
>> παραβολὴν πρὸς Π
>> ±á½Ï„οὺς á½
> τι οὐδεὶς
>> ἐπίβλημα ἀπὸ ἠ
>> ±Î¼Î±Ï„ίοÏ
> καινοῦ
>> σχίσας ἐπιβὠ
>> ±Î»Î»ÎµÎ¹ ἐπὶ á¼±Î¼á½±Ï 
>> „ιον
>> παλαιόν· εἰ δὲ  
>> μή γε, καὶ τὸ κΠ
>> ±Î¹Î½á½¸Î½
>> σχίσει καὶ τῷ πΠ
>> ±Î»Î±Î¹á¿· οὐ σÏ
> μφωνήσει
>> τὸ ἐπίβλημα τὸ ἠ
>> €Ï€á½¸ τοῦ καινοῦ
>
>
> Delbert Flora
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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