[Biblical-languages] Unicode for NT students (paper)
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 1 17:11:40 EDT 2003
On 01/07/2003 11:09, biblang at ntresources.com wrote:
>I've just posted a paper on which I'd be glad for any feedback from this
>list. I presented it to a PhD seminar primarily for NT students: "What a NT
>Student Should Know about Unicode."
>
>It's linked on: http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm
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>Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Associate Prof/NT
>Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA,USA
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This is a good paper! I'm sure it will be very helpful for your students
and others.
Just a few comments:
Below the chart on p.5, the text reads "... Western European keyboard
..." This should probably read "Western code page" or "Western
encoding". This is not a keyboard. And the official name doesn't include
"European", so I guess this is supposed to cover the entire "western
hemisphere", excepting of course Canadian syllabics etc. Similarly on
the rest of this page you should avoid "keyboard", "encoding" would be
better. The DOS keyboard is the same as the Windows one, it is the
encoding which differs.
Note 5 confuses Unicode character codes with their UTF-8, UTF-16 etc
representations. I would just drop the note, "million plus character
slots" is an adequate description.
It is misleading to write (in 4.1.2) that "There are not a great number
of Unicode fonts presently available". Actually most available TrueType
fonts are Unicode - but cover only the western code page or a bit more.
You need to add "... which support polytonic Greek".
The version of Tahoma I have supports only monotonic Greek. Where did
you get a version which supports polytonic?
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Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
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