[B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use Greekdiacriticmarks

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Mar 17 21:56:15 EDT 2008


Hi Roman,

Well I have gmail now and it's set for Unicode but I still can't write
and send Unicode Greek. My browser is IE 6.
(Never mind "send". I can't even WRITE in Greek on gmail.)

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi - qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
West Haven, Connecticut USA

==========================

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:31:01 -0600 "Roman Caceres" <rc.info at fjclink.com>
writes:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Only this last email I received from you was Unicode encoded. The 
> first two 
> were not.
> What Internet browser are you using?
> Just to be sure, could you please try opening an account in Gmail or 
> Yahoo 
> Beta?
> Someone informed that Yahoo Beta works fine with Unicode
> 
> Good to know you can use MS Word!
> You are very close to take complete advantage of Unicode.
> 
> In Christ,
> Roman
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use 
> Greekdiacriticmarks
> 
> 
> Hello Folks,
> 
> First of all, many thanks to Sarah and Roman for their helpful 
> remarks.
> 
> By way of explanation: Juno DOES allow for Unicode enablement. My 
> first
> message was NOT Unicode enabled, my second WAS. As you saw, it made 
> no
> difference at all. Though I wrote (or pasted) what looked like Greek 
> into
> my email program, I too received two lines of question marks. I 
> have
> ALWAYS been able to receive Unicode. The Greek text that Roman sent 
> looks
> just fine in my Juno email program. I have NEVER been able to write 
> and
> send Greek text and have it come out as readable Greek at the other 
> end.
> Nevertheless, Roman's instructions did help me make some progress. 
> Thanks
> to Roman I can now WRITE in Unicode Greek in MS Word with all the
> diacriticals. I can even type Greek text into Juno. But most of the
> diacriticals appear as question marks even before I send it out.
> 
> I guess I'll have to switch to Gmail or something. The problem is 
> that I
> like to compose offline. I don't think that Gmail will allow for 
> that.
> 
> Yours in His grace,
> 
> Richard Ghilardi - qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
> West Haven, Connecticut USA
> 
> ========================================
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:11:38 -0600 "Roman Caceres" 
> <rc.info at fjclink.com>
> writes:
> Hi Sarah,
> All emails I received from you are encoded using Unicode (UTF-8). 
> Gmail
> works fine with Unicode.
> 
> Richards email is not encoded in Unicode. He has a Juno webmail 
> account.
> As far as I know, Juno webmail is "powered" by Yahoo. Yahoo does not 
> work
> fine with Unicode.
> 
> Roman
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Sarah Madden
> To: Roman Caceres
> Cc: Richard Ghilardi
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use Greek
> diacriticmarks
> 
> 
> Hi, Roman --
> I read your text fine, but Richard's example looked like two rows 
> of
> question marks.
> 
> Sarah
> sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
> Maryland - U.S.A.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Roman Caceres 
> <rc.info at fjclink.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> That is strange. Unicode is working great in all software I am using 
> in
> my
> notebook.
> 
> Some webmail clients like Yahoo are not Unicode enabled. Gmail 
> works
> fine.
> The email I received from you is not encoded using Unicode.
> 
> Please let me know if you can read the following text:
> 
> ?? ???? ?? ? ?????...
> 
> In Christ,
> 
> Roman Caceres
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> 
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use Greek
> diacriticmarks
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Folks,
> 
> Below is my attempt to implement Roman Caceres' instructions for 
> writing
> in Greek on the list. I used the Gentium font. The first line I 
> typed out
> in MS Word and pasted it to my Juno e-mail program. The second I 
> typed
> directly into my Juno e-mail program.
> 
> ?? ???? ?? ? ?????...
> 
> ?e? ?a???? ??? ?? ?????...
> 
> Yours in His grace,
> 
> Richard Ghilardi - qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
> West Haven, Connecticut USA



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