[B-Greek] B-Greek Better fonts to use with Unicode

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 21:38:48 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Roman Caceres <rc.info at fjclink.com> wrote:
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>
>  George, you can personally verify what is been said. If you are using MS
>  Word, please type some text using Arial font and go to:
>
>  Insert / Symbol:
>  Choose Font: Arial
>  Look for the Greek Extended subset... IT IS MISSING. I know it is hard to
>  believe.... but try the same with Tahoma, the subset will be there.
>
>  Well, the good news:  I found a solution for the problem when using Outlook
>  Express.
>
>  B-Greek list does not support html emails, all are converted to plain text.
>  So, the text you received has no format. But it has an ENCODING.
>
>  As you know, Unicode is NOT a font, is an encoding system. That is why it
>  really does not matter what font you use to write an email. The issue is the
>  font that is used to READ an email, and this can be changed for a different
>  one of your preference when you received an plain text email.
>
>  If you are using Outlook Express, you can change the default font from Arial
>  to Tahoma:
>
>  Options / Read / Fonts:
>  Proportional Font: Tahoma
>  Encoding: UTF-8
>
>  And the problem is solved. It may take time to get accustomed to read a
>  different font, but it works!!
>
>
>  I hope this is useful.
>

Hi there,

Are you sure? You must be using something old (Windows or Word). I did
have a problem with accented letters in Arial font before. The Word
substitutes Tahoma for accented letters. In other words, even though I
changed into Arial in whole, the it kept accented ones in Tahoma (the
file having a mixture of Arial and Tahoma.) (Curiously I could copy
and paste the accented Gk in Arial from some other source.)

Now with new computer setting (Windows Vista, Word 2007), Arial DOES
have the extended Greek character set.

Hope it helps.

Oun.



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