[Biblical-languages] Unicode for NT students (paper)

biblang at ntresources.com biblang at ntresources.com
Wed Jul 2 09:56:58 EDT 2003


Peter,

Thanks for your comments and corrections/clarifications. They are much
appreciated. I'll revise accordingly. As to Tahoma, I've no idea where this
one came from. It's what's on my XP box--has an Open Type icon. Here's some
of the info from Windows font viewer:

V. 3.05
Creation date, 11/26/96
Modification date, 1/15/2002
379,588 bytes
Font encoding type: Unicode (ISO 10646-2)
Contains a number of OpenType layout tables for Arabic
S.v. "description": The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters were designed
by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by
leading hinting expert, Monotype's Tom Rickner. The Arabic, Hebrew and Thai
characters were designed by the Monotype Drawing Office to complement
Carter's initial designs. 

Rod

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Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Associate Prof/NT
Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA,USA
NTResources.com  PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kirk 
> [mailto:peter.r.kirk.at.ntlworld.com at biblang.at.ntresources.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:12 PM
> To: Biblical Languages
> Subject: Re: [Biblical-languages] Unicode for NT students (paper)
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >====================================================
> >Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Associate Prof/NT
> >Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA,USA
> >NTResources.com  PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
> >Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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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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