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Hi, Henry, Thanks, I'll have a look at it. I have already started building the new site, and the first thing I have seen is that, after I have swapped to GreekKeys Unicode, I do not see any way of choosing this or that font (as I do see it when typing in a Word document, for instance). Well, I'll try to find out more. Juan C. On 23 Jun 2012, at 10:40, Henry Francis Lynam wrote: > Hi Juan, > > This thread on Greek Unicode might be useful: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin? > A2=DIGITALCLASSICIST;c64785e9.1202 > > Click on the By Topic [First | Previous | Next | Last] to navigate > through the replies. > > Henry. > > > On 20 June 2012 16:09, Juan Coderch <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to move my web site www.akwn.net to another web. The > problem I have with mine is that it's a web site that somebody > built for me around 10-11 years ago, piece by piece, button by > button, etc., using Dreamweaver, but it does not accept Unicode. > And being it so simple nowadays to build a web site with providers > like for instance Weebly or Wordpress, where the web site template > is already done and you just have to make some modifications (and > Greek Unicode works in it, I have already checked it), it does not > make much sense to go on posting Greek texts as gif images: readers > can not copy and paste them, etc. > > During the last years I have been receiving requests from readers > to use Unicode and put real text instead of images, but to make > that old web site accept Greek Unicode it seems that some > complicated HTLM steps had to be followed, something out of my > reach, and moreover I have not been aware of the availability of > these already half-done web site providers like Weebly, Wordpress, > etc. until quite recently. > > In any case, one of my fears was that if I post an image, yes, it's > not the same as a text, but 100% of readers can see the text-image, > but not all computers could read Unicode Greek when I started > receiving these requests. Then, the question is: would you say > that, at the present moment, any standard computer that opens a web > site with Greek Unicode in it will visualize the Greek text > correctly? I take for granted that there will be the odd computer > that will not recognise Unicode Greek, but, apart from punctual > cases, would you say that the matter of Unicode is widespread and > normalised enough to take for granted that any standard computer > will be able to visualize it correctly? > > Also, another problem I have seen with Unicode is that, when I open > a Greek text sent to me by anybody else, no matter whichever > Unicode Greek font he/she has used (New Athena, Lucida Grande, > etc.), I visualize it in any font my computer chooses automatically > but compound characters (vowels with accents or breathings or both) > are automatically turned into another font, and the final result > (two fonts in the same text) looks really ugly unless I select all > and maually make all be the same font. So, whatever Unicode font I > will use for the new web site, there is the risk that the readers > will see most text in one font and compound characters in another > font. How can this be avoided? > > Thanks for any answer. > > Juan C. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J. Coderch > Senior Language Tutor in Greek and Latin > The University of St. Andrews > > School of Classics > Swallowgate > St. Andrews > Fife KY16 9AL > > Room C27, Tel. + 44 (0)1334 462611 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Grammar site: http://coderch-greek-latin-grammar.weebly.com > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J. Coderch Senior Language Tutor in Greek and Latin The University of St. Andrews School of Classics Swallowgate St. Andrews Fife KY16 9AL Room C27, Tel. + 44 (0)1334 462611 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Grammar site: http://coderch-greek-latin-grammar.weebly.com