I agree that is a good question. With our WordHoard version of the
Chicago Homer we're cutting the ties to betacode, and I'd like to
know what it is betacode can do that Unicode can't.
On Aug 27, 2005, at 8:28, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> That's a good question. Just three or four years ago, I came to the
> conclusion
> for a project I was working on that we should use Beta Code for
> data input.
> This was always conceived as an interim measure, and we were able to
> bulk-convert this to Unicode later without any trouble.
> Nevertheless, I would
> not make the same decision again now (with better support for
> Unicode input in
> Mac OSX, for example). The issues are worth exploring, though.
>
> (Pure TLG Beta Code, it should be noted, does more than Unicode: it
> is both
> encoding system and markup scheme. If you have a Beta Code text,
> you probably
> need to convert the encoding to Unicode and the markup to XML
> simultaneously.
> No?)
>
> G
>
> Quoting Ross Scaife <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>
>
>> I'd like to suggest sub-topic question for the FAQ:
>>
>> Should I use TLG betacode or Unicode for polytonic classical Greek in
>> my electronic publications?
>>
>> There are those who continue to maintain that betacode is the right
>> choice, and on the other hand certain respected recent publications
>> that have used Unicode.
>>
>>
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