[B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use Greekdiacriticmarks
Roman Caceres
rc.info at fjclink.com
Mon Mar 17 22:19:49 EDT 2008
Richard,
I think IE 6 is the problem. Pelase try with IE 7.
Roman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How to configure Windows XP to use
Greekdiacriticmarks
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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