Re: Greek charset

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:43:18AM -0500, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> Quick question:
>
> If I wanted to present material on this list written in Greek, would that be
> possible? I.e. what's the best way to get Greek characters into my post and
> onto your screens? If that's possible at all...
You're using Windows, I presume? I *think* the default character set
already has a few Greek letters in it... those that aren't there are those
that have look-alikes in the English alphabet already. Keep in mind,
though, that it may not show up correctly on all machines, especially
non-Windows ones (though I'm pretty sure it works fine on mine).

> (and if not, why does this have to be such a problem with computers?)
Because computers were developed in an English-centric environment... i18n
(internationalization) only came on the scene relatively recently.


T

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