[B-Greek] Reading Greek in Messages
frjsilver at optonline.net
frjsilver at optonline.net
Thu Jan 3 11:31:15 EST 2008
Me, too. FWIW, I don't recall adjusting any settings. ??
Father James
(a monk, not a techie)
----- Original Message -----
From: George F Somsel
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 11:25 am
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Reading Greek in Messages
To: "Henry T. Carmichael" , b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> 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
> _________
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Henry T. Carmichael
> 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
> > 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 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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