Gerry Leonidas

Short answer: yes, we outlined only some of the problems. Characters not encoded properly, normalisation wrong (and breaking the char-glyph model). That’s all on Unicode. Then shaping engines apply rules wrong (bundling Greek with Latin and Cyrillic pushes a lot of assumptions on both Gr and Cyr)

Indeed we have been circulating resources for literally decades. The W3C gap analysis is full of “needs research” for information we have shared with OEMs and developers similarly. Those “needs research” entries should be followed by “hm, let’s Google for Greek experts”. I/We are not hard to find.

Digital Greek typography is broken: Improve standards and demand fixes in all software - Αίτηση Online [Ελληνικό κείμενο παρακάτω] When typing on a computer, phone, or any other digital device, users of the Greek writing system struggle to maintain basic and essential grammatical and orthographic rules...

We are working to correct the implementation of Greek on digital platforms. Showing Unicode and OEMs that this matters for many readers is critical, so please read and sign this petition:

www.openpetition.eu/gr/petition/...

So, to be clear: if I am not confident with them computer things, or don’t have any, I should click this link to follow the information on the website. I was worried I might have to use a telephone to speak to an actual person.

Reasons to be happy and look forward to the weekend: the next instalment in Riccardo Olocco’s re-writing of 15th century typographic history:

lazydog.eu/en/product/t...

One of my PhDs used the term “Educrat”. Although the context is different (the historical calligraphy scene in Sanyi) the term describes perfectly the management class that turned universities from collections of research and innovation cells to process behemoths

The kind of ranty footnote my drafts are full of, which never make it to the final version