Re: Greek, glagolitic, cyrillic

On Feb 6, 8:52 am, Nikolaj <nikolaj.kor...@xxxxxx> wrote:
mb pravi:



How so? Unicode needs to be set up with the right font set. What works
for Greek does not work with polytonic Greek that some mindless
Westerners insist in using, and the one that works with that does not
do for for Armenian while the one that does cannot catch Arabic, etc.
etc. You go crazy trying to install one system.

Not true (don't know about polytonic Greek).

Well, that is just so; check before saying "not true". I need at least
3 different font sets at all times, and they are not chosen by the
browser (you have to set it everytime to work with the correct font
set). On some Web interfaces, I have no choice.

For others what is needed
is only a click or two where you choose which keyboards you need for
text input. I usually install Slovene, Macedonian, Sanskrit and English

But those don't have any problem anyway. The Slavic ones and Western
are all readable on the same fonts as nagari.

Without forgetting that a huge lot of people around the world are
still without unicode.

Which? (I assume you mean living scripts?)

You'd be surprised. Even here in the States I know many people who are
so happy to be given a used W95 or 98. So imagine the third world and
quasi-third. That is a big factor in people agreeing to the smallest
common denominator.

Oh, yeah? Well, have you had a peep in Greek or Armenian or other
newsgroups?

Well I read Macedoanian ng's and every now and then some Greek text
shows up, which I can't read (I have never learned Greek beyond alphabet
and recognition of characters).

Monotonic Greek has "no problems", like some of the Slavic sets, but
even then you'll frequently get little boxes if you don't know squat
about your computer or unicode, if you are communicating through some
hard-to-use web interface (Google groups until very recently, and
others going on), or if your intermediate server screws it up (they
do).

Or how often do you exchange e-mail in languages that need
a whole special setup? People just use the easiest: ASCII (or whatever
its modern name). And, well, it works with all its imperfections,
without having to use the ad hoc writing system.

You don't need a whole special setup.

What's so difficult with installing a new keyboard? Every recent
WindowOS can do that easily and I think they are in majority.

It's not the keyboard. Keyboards work if you are on a modern system.
It is the reading of your correspondence: finding right font;
impossibility to even force a set if you are on some web interfaces;
intermediate servers. Fact is, people continue happily in Roman and
they are not all idiots. There is a reason.

.

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