Re: problem with greek language

Hmmm... Are you sure it is not a matter of your fonts being incapable of displaying Greek characters? Can you try with these : http://sourceforge.net/projects/font-tool BTW, are you using Windows or *nix? -Stathis On Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:52, Rosen wrote: > Thanks, > But the problem is thath I can't put directly into code the greek text > with copy/paste from the .doc file in the PHP editor. I chahged the > encoding for the editor to greek charset, but when I paste it, the > result is "??????????? ????" ( questiomarks ) . > > rouvas wrote: > > Hi Rosen, > > > > either use ISO-8859-7 for the encoding or UTF-8. If you use ISO-8859-7 > > your site will not need any modifications (either than replacing the > > "&tau, ..., etc" symbols with the actual characters). If you use UTF-8 > > you will of course have to modify your strings to make them UTF-8 > > compatible. > > > > Please, take into account that using the "τ&eta, ..., etc" symbols > > is > > *not* guaranteed to work for users visiting your site from Greece. No > > matter what the standards say, there are problems. Trust me. I live in > > Greece :-) > > > > -Stathis > > > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:39, Rosen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I have one very big problem: I create website with english and greek > >> language. I use "iso-8859-1" encoding for my website. > >> I show the greek language text with encoded chars like > >> > >> "τηλεόρα&si;" - I > >> copy/paste this > >> from Openoffice documents. > >> On the website I have no problems - everything shows ok, but when I pass > >> this greek encoded string to javascript - i.e. > >> "alert('τη');" > >> the browser doesn't decode the greek symbols and the alert shows me the > >> same > >> > >> :"τη" > >> > >> Have someone some idea how to solve this problem ? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Rosen