Using Greek and Hebrew font

[Rick H.]

Dear All,

None of my software packs seem to work when I type a post with Greek font using my word processor, and then cut and paste them to the reply screen of a given thread.

I notice some here are able to include Greek font in thier posts. Can anyone share with me how this is done please?

For that matter, I have the same problem with Hebrew font. If any could bring me up to speed in this area it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Rick

[M.C. Steenberg]

Dear Rick,

In order to use foreign characters in posts, you need to ensure that you are using Unicode encoding, rather than a special font. If you're using Unicode encoding (such as via the built-in languages features in Windows), cutting-and-pasting should work.

INXC, Dcn Matthew

[Misha]

you need to have greek fonts installed in your pc

a simple solution can be found here:
http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/help.htm#english

[M.C. Steenberg]

you need to have greek fonts installed in your pc

a simple solution can be found here:
http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/help.htm#english

No, these fonts are not specifically relevant to this web site (they are to ecclesia.gr!). Here, Greek in the forum is displayed via text encoding, which is standard on all modern computers that support Unicode.

INXC, Dcn Matthew

[Rick H.]

Dear Fr. Dcn. Matthew,

This is very helpful, thank you.

In Christ,
Rick

[Michael Stickles]

Sometimes, when I copy-and-paste Greek from MS Word (using "Insert Symbol" to get the Greek characters), a lot of formatting tags get stuffed in with it (they tag along invisibly until I hit "Preview Post"). I've found that if I copy the Greek text first into Notepad, and then into the reply screen, it gets rid of any unwanted formatting.

[Rick H.]

δοκιμάζώ

Who's the man? Mike's the man! :)


BUT . . . does this mean I have to use the insert symbol and insert one symbol at a time? This could get kind of tedious for longer passages.


Thanks Mike.

[Nina]

δοκιμάζώ

Who's the man? Mike's the man!


BUT . . . does this mean I have to use the insert symbol and insert one symbol at a time? This could get kind of tedious for longer passages.


Thanks Mike.

Mike is the best! :)

If you write it in Word like Fr. Matthew said and do some other things it will convert here and be fine!!! Now get to work to figure it out :p cause I know nothing:cool:

[Rick H.]

cause I know nothing:cool:



Thank you Sgt. Nina! ;)

[Nina]

Thank you Sgt. Nina! ;)

Giggles... you got the right first letter (S) but it continues ~ ocrates. Since I never knew let alone be inspired by the Sgt. you like so much. :)

[Michael Stickles]

BUT . . . does this mean I have to use the insert symbol and insert one symbol at a time? This could get kind of tedious for longer passages.

There is a shareware utility (http://members.aol.com/AtticGreek/) designed to make it easy to type and edit Greek with the full polytonic character set using Unicode characters. I've never used it myself - though I'll probably get around to installing it soon, since the last couple of times I used Greek in a post the inserts and copies did indeed get a bit tedious.

I'm sure there's something similar out there for Hebrew, but since my knowledge of Hebrew approximates zero quite nicely, I've never looked for anything like that. :)

[Anthony]

That looks nice - sometimes I almost envy MS Windows users .

Another site which I find quite useful (and not only for Greek) is this one (http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html). You can "type" the characters in and then convert the whole lot automatically to (decimal) HTML code, which you can then paste in. There are many similar facilities around for particular languages, though this is one of the most general I have come across.

Something I have only recently discovered (Mike probably knew it years ago) is that besides entering ready-made Greek-letter-plus-diacritic combinations, it is also possible to create them using ordinary letters and codes from the special "diacritic" section (starting U+300) - an option which seems preferable in many ways. I have read that it is also possible to point Hebrew in this way, though I have never tried it.

[Michael Stickles]

Something I have only recently discovered (Mike probably knew it years ago) is that besides entering ready-made Greek-letter-plus-diacritic combinations, it is also possible to create them using ordinary letters and codes from the special "diacritic" section (starting U+300) - an option which seems preferable in many ways.

While I've known of it, I normally don't use that method because appearance is greatly dependent on the font you use. Some fonts cause the diacritics to be offset too far to the left or right, and the result can be quite awkward to read.