[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 á¼Î»Îµá½»ÏƒÎ¿Î½Ï„αι δὲ
>> ἡμέÏαι, καὶ
>> á½
> ταν ἀπαÏθῇ ἀπ᾿ Î
> ±á½Ï„ῶν ὠνÏ
> μφίος,
>> τότε νηστεύσοÏ
> σιν á¼Î½ á¼ÎºÎµá½·Î½Î±Î¹Ï‚
>> ταῖς ἡμέÏαις. 36
>> Ἔλεγεν δὲ καὶ
>> παÏαβολὴν Ï€Ïὸς Î
>> ±á½Ï„οὺς á½
> τι οá½Î´Îµá½¶Ï‚
>> á¼Ï€á½·Î²Î»Î·Î¼Î± ἀπὸ á¼
>> ±Î¼Î±Ï„ίοÏ
> καινοῦ
>> σχίσας á¼Ï€Î¹Î²á½
>> ±Î»Î»ÎµÎ¹ á¼Ï€á½¶ ἱμάÏ
>> „ιον
>> παλαιόν· εἰ δὲ
>> μή γε, καὶ τὸ κÎ
>> ±Î¹Î½á½¸Î½
>> σχίσει καὶ τῷ Ï€Î
>> ±Î»Î±Î¹á¿· οὠσÏ
> μφωνήσει
>> τὸ á¼Ï€á½·Î²Î»Î·Î¼Î± τὸ á¼
>> €Ï€á½¸ τοῦ καινοῦ
>
>
> Delbert Flora
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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