[B-Greek] I have a simple issue...
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Jan 18 09:38:17 EST 2008
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Kurt S. Steele wrote:
> I am humbly ask, why some of you I can see the greek letters in yoru
> emails
> and others are english transliteration. What do I need to do to
> update my
> fonts?
We've been discussing this repeatedly and I've had numerous offlist
questions about it too. I guess there's no avoidance of another round
of responses to the question, but I'll try to make it short.
(1) If list-members follow list protocol, it doesn't matter whether
you can see the Unicode Greek font at all, because there will always
be a transliterated text accompanying any Greek-font text. It is
abundantly evident that too many list-members have problems composing
or displaying the Unicode Greek text for us to make use of the Greek
Unicode formatting standard for messages on B-Greek as yet.
(2) In order to view Unicode Greek (or other non-Roman font) properly
in e-mail, you must be (a) running an operating system that supports
Unicode (I think that most Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems do so
now), and (b) have your system and/or e-mail program configured
properly to display the "text encoding"
Unicode (UTF-8). How this is done may vary from one e-mail program to
another, but I think it's usually to be found in the preferences file
and it probably also can be found under a "View" menu.
(3) It's my impression that it is harder to configure web-mail
programs to compose and display messages in Unicode than it is to
configure mail applications that compose and read e-mail offline, but
I don't know whether that's really the case.
(4) One of the better online resources concerning Unicode -- regularly
updated -- is: Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources (http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html
) -- but a Google search using the keyword "Unicode" will bring up a
whole slew of resources.
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
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