Re: help on writing Greek characters
- From: "elagabalus" <PERGLI@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:01:23 GMT
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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elagabalus <PERGLI@xxxxxxxx> scripsit:
As I don't succeed in pasting valid Greek characters in the posts I
send to this
newsgroup, I decided to utilize the Polytonic Greek keyboard.
As a rule of thumb, international Usenet groups use US-ASCII characters
only, since other characters don't work reliably enough. Polytonic Greek
characters are a particularly difficult case. Even if you sent them
correctly, not all newsreaders get and show them properly, and it easily
happens that when someone quotes you, things get all wrong.
There's a particular feature in encoding of polytonic Greek that might
explain some of the problems that have occurred, and I mention it because
it will always remain a problem (though hopefully a manageable one in the
future). A Greek letter with a diacritic mark can be represented either
as a single Unicode character or as two Unicode characters, namely the
base letter followed by a combining diacritic mark. Though they are by
definition "compatibility equivalent", they are not identical, and it may
well happen that one method works and the other does not, in particular
situation. Most probably it's the single-character representation that
works more often (and has much better odds of creating a typographically
acceptable visual result).
This group is admittedly one of the few international groups where a
richer character repertoire would really be needed. But I'm afraid it's
still far from safe to use Unicode here (which would be the only sensible
way to include polytonic Greek using the real Greek characters).
Thus, try to live with the US-ASCII limitation for the time being. Use
some transliteration or, if you have long piece of text that you wish to
discuss, write it as a web page and tell its URL.
I tried with Arial Unicode MS and Times New Roman fonts.
It is irrelevant what fonts you used. Font information is not included
into a Usenet message (unless you use HTML format on Usenet - you
shouldn't), only the characters as elements of a character code. On a web
page, it's different, but you need not (and perhaps should not) set the
font there either.
First, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of answers got: you all were
kind, some even spent their time to watch my tests on alt.just.testing, so I
want to thank you and the others in the circumstance.
Your suggestion to utilize a transliteration seems very good and I am going
to follow this line from now on.
Also your advice to use a web page looks valid and I will try it if
necessary.
Thanks again
.
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