A challenge to the ASCII proponents.

Thu Jul 17 23:11:56 EDT 2003

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:53:05 +0100, Alan Kennedy <alanmk at hotmail.com> wrote:

>JanC wrote:
>
>> The verb "gignooskoo" (trying to write it with Latin letters ;)
>
>Why limit yourself to that nasty little us-ascii alphabet? >;-)
>
>Here it is in a format where almost everybody will be able to see the
>original greek verb on their screen.
>
>#---------
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
><verb>&#x3b3;&#x3af;&#x3b3;&#x3bd;&#x3c9;&#x3c3;&#x3ba;&#x3c9;</verb>
>#---------
>
>For anybody who has MS Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+, Mozilla 1+,
>i.e. any browser that supports XML, simply save this to a disk file
>and open it in your chosen browser.
>
Sorry, that doesn't work for my old browser (NS4.5 ;-) Try this:

====< giginooskoo.html >======================================================
<html><head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-8859-7">
<style> H1 {font-size: 72pt} </style>
<title>gignooskoo</title></head><body>
<h1>γίγνωσκω</h1>
</body></html>
==============================================================================

>Of course, I could also have used charset "iso-8859-7", in which case
>the character codes would be one-byte-only. But I don't think that
>would have travelled well over UseNet to most of you.
>
The above seems to work for me. Does it you?  Windows-1253 as char set should also work, I think.
(I made the char numeric entities decimal, as some old browsers don't do &#x...;)
(There's also some unnecessary formatting ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter