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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 24 22:06:41 EDT 2008


I must have missed this post until Oun Kwon copied it in his post.  Normally I don't use the "Insert Symbol" option but rather either type the characters myself or copy and paste them from another source.  I therefore had to check this before I could respond.  When I attempt to use "Insert Symbol" in MS Word 2003, I find the Extended Greek subset for Arial Unicode MS which I have frequently used.  Plain Jane Arial, however, does not have the Extended Greek as you noted.  I have never recommended plain Arial for polytonic Greek.  If you attempt to use Arial, you will not succeed.  It would be better for you to use Tahoma or to download another of the fonts supporting polytonic Greek which I and others have recommended.

 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:38:48 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] B-Greek Better fonts to use with Unicode

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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