Greek help

[Ashley]

If my Greek proffessor sent me an email (gmail account) in Greek, how can I get my windows XP running machine to display it in Greek and not garbled English?

[Arnobius]

Make sure you have the proper fonts installed on Windows, and I would recommend going to Language Options, Advanced and check the box for enabling language fonts in other programs

Presuming that is done, you may want to check the setting of the Encoding for your browser. Sometimes the default doesn't work well with foreign language fonts.

Wish I could be more specific but right now I am at work, so I can't give you any screenshots

[Ashley]

How would I go about installing the proper fonts for Windows?

[Slater]

well it depends actually. If he sent it in unicode, try copy and pasting what he sent into a word processor and see if changing the font around to different things (I think Arial is a good font) makes it show up. Windows machines have the Greek leters built into them.

[initialdfreak]

There is a font called Symbol.. look for it in the gmail options or copy and paste it in notepad.

[Arnobius]

Yes, it is Symbol

Also, for encoding, here is a screenshot for a browser if you do your email on line:

[Kaligraphic]

In your browser, try View->Encoding and there should be two Greek options (they may be under a More menu) - Windows and ISO. Try one of those, and see if it makes sense. You can also try the Unicode options.

Oh, and you may not need to install anything new - Arial and Times New Roman contain the appropriate glyphs in the Unicode Greek range, and Symbol has Greek characters in the Latin range (nonstandard, but sometimes used).