I've been seeing one character in the Greek quote from Mark's signature displayed as a box also. Mail program is Outlook Express (IE6 beta) running on Windows 98
Looking a bit closer, utf-8 encoded plain-text mails from Mark display the character correctly. I have set the font for this case to Arial Unicode MS; OE default was to use plain Arial
Mark's original HTML mail had the font specified in the html like so
<DIV><FONT size=3D2><FONT face=3DArial> ...
and did not display the ἄ.
this line has the font set to Arial Unicode MS ἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄ
this line has the font set to Arial ἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄἄ
(We'll see if it actually gets sent that way.)
And OE completely trashes the Greek in the Subject field in its list of mail messages.
Andy Heninger
IBM, Cupertino, CA
heninger@us.ibm.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Davis
To: Thomas Milo
Cc: Unicode
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: ἄνθρωπος
It all depends on the font you use in your emailer. I see it fine with Arial Unicode MS. The following is in NFKD*. Is it any better for you?
πάντων μέτρον ἄνθρωπος — Πρωταγόρας
Mark
* BTW, we recently added normalizing transliterators ("Any-NFC", etc.), so it is easy to use our demo at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/translitdemo to normalize examples.
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πάντων μέτρον ἄνθρωπος — Πρωταγόρας
[http://www.macchiato.com]
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Milo
To: Mark Davis
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 07:02
Subject: ἄνθρωπος
Hi Mark,
A red herring: your man - measure of all things - arrives mutilated.
On my win2000 ie55 system the alpha-plus-spiritus lenis is replaced by a box.
Regards,
Tom
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