Greek Characters

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Zenzefiloan

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I have one major problem complaint. That has to do with Greek characters in web browsers.

Mozilla:dissapointing
IE:dissapointing /some letters are totaly **** up
OW:Great
Chimera:dont exist but i can't blame them

Now if you go to www.sports.gr and see at the Greek characters on all those browsers you will understand what i mean they just look different.

Why is that is there anything that can be done so that i get the results of OW on Mozilla?

Does this happen with other characters?

I am running a US version of 10.1.4 on a PBTi

Thanks for all the replies!
 
Perimene merikes ores na pao spiti giati stin douleia den exo OS X :p

By the way, do you have the same prob under OS 9 or no ? (assuming that you have a US version of OS 9 )
 
I was writin a BIG responce to this thread last night while waiting for netscape 7 to download, and then once it downloaded I did apple-q (forgetting that I had minimized the window :p) and POOF, there goes my responce.

Well, the short answer, is that you cannot make IE or mozilla perform as good as omniweb because I believe that it is a hardcoded issue on how the browser displays/decodes the encoding on the page.

I tested 3 browsers, OMNI, IE, and netscape 7 (PR1). Perhaps I should test opera today as well, maybe tonight. In anycase - omni performs THE BEST of all three in encodings. I went to greek pages and Netscape 7 (which is essentially mozilla) displays fonts now as IE does, they still look italic and streched out, and there are some errors, notably with the letter Pi. IE you know about as well as omni.

I tested out 2 more kinds of pages. Vietnamese (a language which uses extended roman characters, but more core complex than western european alphabets) and russian. Russian does well in IE and omni, and I believe in Netscape (was too tired to stay up and test russian too) The fonts look nice and crisp (kind of like greek looks in omni) in all three browsers. I also tested out vietnamese. Omni here gets an A+. There are some weird spots where some letters seem bolder than others, but all letters were displayed correctly in omni. IE and NEtscape on the other hand are almost identical, they cannot properly handle this encoding and many errors showed up (it was horrible :p)...

No wonder why omni is my browser of choice :)
if I knew chinese and japanese I would test those pages but as we say "ola kinezika tha mou fenontousan" hehehe :p

Admiral
 
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