[B-Greek] Reading Greek in Messages

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 3 11:18:14 EST 2008


I just checked to be sure I was correct.  In a message from Elizabeth Kline recently (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2008-January/045285.html) the Greek appears, well, Greekish.  In other words I can read it using IE7.

 
george
gfsomsel
 
Therefore, O faithful Christian, search for truth, hear truth, 
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.
 
- Jan Hus
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----- Original Message ----
From: Henry T. Carmichael <carmih at bigfoot.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 10:46:24 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Reading Greek in Messages

I hardly rate as an inexperienced computer user, but I do not see
polytonic Greek text in the B-Greek digests.  I am using Thunderbird
e-mail, (2.0.0.9) and have made every setting I can find: 
Tools/Options/Display/Fonts & Encodings/UTF-8; View/Character 
Encoding/UTF-8; for my B-Greek folder Properties/General 
Information/Default Character Encoding=UTF-8 - but no joy.

Does anyone on the list use Thunderbird to read the digest who can see 
the polytonic Greek in the digest, or is the problem in the digest 
itself? MH GENOITO!

Henry Carmichael

> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:43:59 +1100 (EST)
> From: David McKay <gontroppo at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Reading Greek in messages
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Message-ID: <490859.67956.qm at web45116.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> But it does not seem possible to do this globally with
> IE7, unless I'm really thick!
> I seem to need to do it every time I load up a browser
> page.
> David McKay
> --- George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 1.  Make sure you have a unicode font which covers
>> polytonic Greek
>>      a. 
>>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
>>      b. 
>>
> http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp
>>      c.  http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html
>>      d. 
>>
> http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/NAUdownload.html
>>      e. 
>>
> http://www.fontfinder.ws/18373/Palatino-Linotype.html
>>    There are others as well
>> 2. Set your browser options to use UTF-8
>>
>> george
>> gfsomsel
>>  
>> Therefore, O faithful Christian, search for truth,
>> hear truth, 
>> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the
>> truth, 
>> defend the truth till death.
>>  
>> - Jan Hus
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