Re: WHAT calendar for the current year 2012

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
>
> > 2008/2/1 R A Brown <ray@...>:
> > > I suspect that baptisms in Greece will use the Koine forms of names and
> > > not the modern. E.g. Γιάννης will have been baptized as
> > Ἰωάννης.
> >
> > Quite so. (Though without the breathing, if he was baptised after
> > 1982.) I think that his identity papers will also show Ιωάννης.
> > Similarly with Γιώργος / Γεώργιος, etc.,
> > and I think that
> > Κατερίνα
> > will have been baptised Αικατερίνη as well.
>
> A Greek friend of mine is called
> &#922;&#945;&#964;&#949;&#961;&#943;&#957;&#945;, but her passport indeed
> says
> &#913;&#953;&#954;&#945;&#964;&#949;&#961;&#943;&#957;&#951;.
Apparently I should not try and post Greek letters. That's "Katerina" and
"Aikaterinê" respectively.

 Andreas