Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/31/06 21:36

Ioannis <morpheus@olympus.mons> scripsit:

> Need someone to check the display of Greek on my webpage. I am using a
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=ISO-8859-7"> tag,

That's a surrogate for a real HTTP header, but in practice it works
sufficiently when the real HTTP headers do not conflict with it (as they
don't in your case).

> and not UTF-8 characters, so I am unsure if
> non-Greek Windows computers automatically display the Greek ok.
>
> http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/math/index.html

Well, it depends on whether the user's system has a font containing Greek
letters. Apart from that (and you can't really do anything to that), there
should be no problems. Surely no problem on my computer, with Finnish
version of Windows. The letters are all uppercase and lack stress marks
(tonos), but that seems to be how you have written them, perhaps to imitate
the ancient Greek writing.

On the other hand, why do you write a quotation in Greek when the page is
otherwise entirely in English? The vast majority of people who understand
English don't understand Greek, often not even the letters - they are all
Greek to them. (And the quotation does not specify the author and the
source. Though not legally required for an ancient quotation, lack of
credits suggests that you didn't actually check the quotation from the
original source but copied it from someone who didn't check the sources
either. In fact, _most_ "classical" quotations on web pages are more or less
wrong, or at least used out of their proper context.)

> if you can, please tell me if the Greek letters in the cyan quote
> above the animated .gif show up ok and not as gibberish.

No technical problem with that. It's the text in English that is almost
unreadable, due to using black background (and not setting font face, which
mostly means that it defaults to Times New Roman, which is really hard to
read with "inverse colors").

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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