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

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, December 1, 2000, 7:50
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> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================