Will: Should not the question be, who on this list is still tied to a mail server that cannot present UTF-8 encoding?
I originally switched to gmail because the mail service I was using could show unicode, but not allow me to send same. Today it is UTF-8 compliant. All the email servers that I know of are UTF-8 compliant. So are there any members of this list who cannot receive and/or send unicode? If everyone can receive and send unicode, is there any reason to continue the transcription scheme? Karl W. Randolph. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Will Parsons <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, fellow subscribers to the Biblical Hebrew mailing list, > > What's the current feeling about using Unicode/UTF-8 encoding for citing > non-English text (e.g., Hebrew [obviously], Greek, Arabic, &c.), or > pronunciations (using IPA symbols)? Historically, it's been considered > proper to use only 7-bit ASCII in Usenet or mailing lists, but sometimes > (as > in the case of this mailing list) it's difficult to do this adequately. > > In my own posts to this list in the past, I've attempted to deal with this > by citing original forms in Unicode with a transcription into the "usual" > English representation of the original, hoping that this will satisfy both > the needs of those that can both read and understand the original forms and > also of those that may not be able to see the original characters (i.e., > can't see the Hebrew/Greek/Arabic/[whatever] text) or be able to undestand > it (obviously, not everyone can be knowledgable about every language that > may be relevant to Biblical Hebrew). > > So, I would like to ask if people on this list have issues with reading > Unicode? To be clear, I am *not* asking whether people can understand > Greek/Arabic/[whatever], but whether they can actually see a cited text as > something other than gibberish. > > -- > William Parsons > μη φαινεσθαι, αλλ' ειναι. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
