Re: Greek charset

> Date:         Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:26:40 -0600
> From:         Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
>
> On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 09:07 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> What about Unicode?
Unicode will indeed be the technology that allows us all to write and
view documents with Greek, Cyrillic, real IPA, Deva Nagari and so on
all jumbled together to our hearts content.

And to send it in email, you will use UTF-8, just like they do on some
webpages already.

But don't start yet, there are too many people whose mailreaders won't
handle it. Give it a few years, and use ASCII-IPA, ASCII-Greek and so
on while we wait.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)