Re: Romaunt days (was: A funny linguistic subway experience &c)

At 5:44 pm -0500 30/11/00, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>> [Hope the Greek letters don't get hopelessly mangled!]
>
>Your mail was labeled as Latin-1, but the encoding must be something
>quite different.  It is neither ISO 8859-7 nor Windows CP1253, which
>are the usual ways of encoding Greek.  Pi for example was encoded
>as BD, which is VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF in all three charsets.
No - it's just "extended ASCII" but I guess because I'm using a Mac,
Windows will insist on re-interpreting the things <sigh>
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At 9:36 pm -0500 30/11/00, Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:42:26 +0000 Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
>writes:
>> For interest the Greek names are:
>> KYPIAKH     /kiria'ki/        Dominical (day), i.e. the Lord's day
>> êEYTEPA     /Def'tera/        second (day)
>> TPITH       /'triti/          third (day)
>> TETAPTH     /te'tarti/        fourth (day)
>> ‡EM‡TH     /'pempti/         fifth (day)
>> ‡APAÖKEYH  /paraske'vi/      Preparation
>> ÖABBATON    /'savato(n)/      Sabbath
>> [Hope the Greek letters don't get hopelessly mangled!]
Ach y fi!

My upper case delta has transmogrified to e-circumflex,
my upper case pi re-appears as upper case omega,
and upper case sigma becomes upper case o-umlaut.

Sorry folks!

(I wonder what an upper case omega ‡ on my machine gets transmogrified into
when its been through a Window or two  :)

Ray.

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