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in reply to a message by Pavlos
These pages are using entity numbers rather than direct utf-8 encoding for the Greek characters. Since all browsers in common use today understand the syntax, this normally is not a problem except that the Greek characters take up 6 bytes each slowing down the download time by an imperceptible amount.
But the program that generated the pictures included at the top of each page does not know about it, and the picture on the, for example, gamma page talks about Gamma which is the 915th unicode point :-)
Otherwise looks good!
But the program that generated the pictures included at the top of each page does not know about it, and the picture on the, for example, gamma page talks about Gamma which is the 915th unicode point :-)
Otherwise looks good!
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Thanks for the comments :) You have completely stumped me with your tech-savvy lingo :)
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Sorry did not mean to. When you make such a nice looking page, and, since it is coming from you, with so much promise, expect to see some trivial criticism :-)
All I pointed out was a slight inefficiency in the page that is really irrelevant and that:
whereas the Alpha page correctly shows
ETYMOLOGICA: Deciphering Hellenic Names
Alpha - Α
the corresponding page for Gamma shows
ETYMOLOGICA: Deciphering Hellenic Names
Gamma - Γ
Note that & # 915 ; business: that is HTML-speak for the 915th Unicode character that just happens to be Γ.
There is one additional issue: on the index to the left of every page, the Greek letters which don't have a Roman equivalent (like Γ, Δ, etc.) are correctly written using the Greek unicode characters, whereas the ones that have equivalents (like Α, Β, etc.) are written using the non-Greek symbols (A, B, etc.). They may look exactly alike, but they are not appear equal for searches (try searching this page for a capital B).
Also, why is there a page25 before the Omega and a page27 after it, both being links to feedback?
All I pointed out was a slight inefficiency in the page that is really irrelevant and that:
whereas the Alpha page correctly shows
ETYMOLOGICA: Deciphering Hellenic Names
Alpha - Α
the corresponding page for Gamma shows
ETYMOLOGICA: Deciphering Hellenic Names
Gamma - Γ
Note that & # 915 ; business: that is HTML-speak for the 915th Unicode character that just happens to be Γ.
There is one additional issue: on the index to the left of every page, the Greek letters which don't have a Roman equivalent (like Γ, Δ, etc.) are correctly written using the Greek unicode characters, whereas the ones that have equivalents (like Α, Β, etc.) are written using the non-Greek symbols (A, B, etc.). They may look exactly alike, but they are not appear equal for searches (try searching this page for a capital B).
Also, why is there a page25 before the Omega and a page27 after it, both being links to feedback?
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Thanks, তন্ময় ভট , that is very helpful :) I will try and keep my fonts uniform.
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