suzmccarth <suzmccarth at yahoo dot com> wrote:

> I have also being playing catchup on some other issues, like
> polytonic Greek. I can input and post the precomposed letters with
> all the accents and spiris using Tahoma font and it displays well in
> most browsers. However, how are decomposed or 'combining' diacritcs
> supposed to work and do they? Sometimes I go to some other site with
> classical Greek and it is still a jumble of empty boxes.

Seeing empty boxes does not mean the character encoding model doesn't
work. It means your copy of Tahoma (or whatever font the Web site's
style sheet uses) doesn't have glyphs for all of the combining
characters used in polytonic Greek.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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