[b-greek] Safari browser and Unicode Greek

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Fri Jan 10 10:08:28 EST 2003


I just saw this announcement on B-Greek. Has anyone here tested it with
Hebrew yet?

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PennerThesis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu] 
> Sent: January 10, 2003 7:17 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Safari browser and Unicode Greek
> 
> 
> B-Greekers who happen to be Mac-users (and I realize we are a 
> minority) and who haven't become aware of or tried the new 
> free web-browser "Safari" just released in beta by Apple 
> should do so, if for no other reason, than that it renders 
> UTF-8 Unicode beautifully, making the Greek text at Perseus 
> (e.g. Westcott & Hort GNT:
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%
> 3A1999.01.0155)
> or Michael Haggett's leaner GNT without diacriticals:
> (http://www.ntgreek.fsnet.co.uk/greeknt/f01-matt.html)
> splendidly easy to read. Hitherto only OmniWeb would display 
> Unicode well on the Mac, but Safari is lightning-fast and 
> outstrips other Mac browsers in almost every respect, IMHO. 
> One must, of course, choose Unicode (UTF-8) as the default 
> encoding in the Appearance panel of the settings.




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