[B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Mar 17 14:01:23 EDT 2008
Yes, it is true that HMTL-formatting is filtered out of messages sent
to B-Greek; this also means that messages that aren't in 2-part MIME
formatting come through as "empty" messages when sent on to list-
members.
What this means for Unicode is that you MUST have your text-encoding
set to UTF-8 and you MUST be using a font that has the glyphs for
Greek in it; if you do and you send the message to the list, list-
members will be able to read it so long as they have a Unicode font
with Greek glyphs in their computer system, WHETHER OR NOT their font
is the same font as that in which the message was originally composed.
AFTER ALL, that's the entire point of Unicode: it doesn't depend on
the particular font, it depends solely on the text-encoding and having
a Unicode font with the right glyphs in it.
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Roman Caceres wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I realized that apparently there is a filter for html content type
> in the
> list so all the fonts I sent look the same....
>
> If this is correct, only text emails are permited and one solution
> to see
> "even" characters would be to change the font the email client uses by
> default when reading the messages.
>
> Roman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Caceres" <rc.info at fjclink.com>
> To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:02 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying with different fonts for use with Unicode.
> Arial is not very nice because it has diferent heights for
> characters with
> diactritical marks:
>
> (Arial) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> Other fonts work better, such as:
>
> (Gentium) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> (Tahoma) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> (Palatino Lynotype) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> I hope this is useful.
>
> Roman
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