[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."
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>It's linked on: http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm
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>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?

-- 
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/




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