--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Ewell" <dewell@...> wrote:

>
> suzmccarth <suzmccarth at yahoo dot com> wrote:

>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.

Sorry, Doug, I mean to say I have figured out how to post and
display precomposed but not decomposed ... yet. I am working on it.

Suzanne