Posted by cwdjrxyz on 06/01/06 15:46

Ioannis wrote:
> 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, 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
>
> 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.

I checked you page on all of my browsers. I am using the Windows XP OS
with all updates including sp2, and the OS and all browsers are English
version.

The Greek characters displayed correctly on Mozilla 1.7.11, Netscape
8.0.4, Firefox 1.5.0.3, Opera 8.54, W3Cs Amaya 8.1b, SBC/Yahoo DSL
Version 6.00-XCSX;sp2 (slightly modified IE6), and the old Netscape
4.8.

I also viewed on a MSNTV Viewer 2.8[build 20] simulator program for the
old MSNTV set top box. This old box did not support Greek
characters(and many other things). It displayed Geek instead of Greek -
upper case English characters, each with different strange accent marks
above them. The old MSNTV boxes likely are down to under one million
units and are in the US only, although there once were some in Canada,
and there is a new version of the box (MSNTV2) that is completely
different and based on a watered down IE6 browser. The new version box
likely supports Greek, but I have not seen one.

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