[B-Greek] little problem
frank boumphrey
koinebible at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 23:44:29 EDT 2009
FTR if you receive the digest version it is sent in UTF8, no Greek
characters will show
Also unless you have a specialized Greek font installed such as Aristarcoj,
it is not easy to type Greek Characters on an english Keyboard
Frank
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:32 PM, jerry wrote:
>
> > I'm a systems engineer. And it's very doubtful that there are
> > functioning systems today that will not support unicode fonts. I
> > don't know of any. So maybe it is time to pull the group out of the
> > stone age, even if we do have a propensity and fondness for that
> > time period.
> >
> > The level of scholarship here is superlative and warrants operating
> > at the highest level, not at a low level aiming at three or four
> > total systems (literally) out in the world that may not be able to
> > handle unicode.
> >
> > What you are actually saying is that there may be people who don't
> > want to ask a friend how to do it, which is a shame.
> >
> > jerry
>
> We go through this discussion again and again every two or three
> months (sometimes the interval is greater). I don't think the problem
> is really just that people are still using systems that don't support
> unicode fonts. I switched to a mail program that I don't like as well
> as Eudora because Eudora didn't support unicode fonts (the current
> post-Qualcomm version 8 does, but it still hasn't reached its optimal
> format yet, evidently). The problem is that some people have a real
> difficulty learning, some people just don't want to type Greek whether
> in a Greek font or in transliteration, and some who want to paste
> Greek text in either put it into a text-format that isn't set to utf-8
> encoding or they copy it from a pre-unicode font. For one reason or
> another too many list-members who want to post just haven't come to
> understand the relatively simple technological adjustments needed to
> make sure that the unicode Greek displays properly. Until the
> moderators of B-Greek are satisfied that there's no longer a problem,
> we'll continue with the current regulations regarding citation of
> Greek texts.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Co-Chair, B-Greek List
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
>
>
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