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

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 00:11:02 EDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:06 PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>  george
> gfsomsel
>

George, why do you say, 'you will not succeed (with Arial)'? I don't
experience any trouble with it at all.  What kind of problem you have
in mind? I do not like Tahoma that it has the same shape for P in
capital and small letter.

Oun.



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