I’ve been trying for hours to figure a way to post selected words in Greek or Hebrew (mainly Greek). I’d really like to be able to do that in the comments, as well.
I’ve been through a dozen or more WordPress plug ins, web sites, tutorials, and I can find nothing that works.
When I go into BibleWorks (or Logos) and copy and paste a Greek text into the visual editor, it shows up looking like: ð?óôåùò (which was supposed to be pistews = “faith”). When I paste it into the HTML editor, it looks exactly right in the editor, until published, and then it looks like: ???????.
So I figured several readers here also post on WordPress and maybe one or two has figured this out. How do I post Greek characters?
And I’d really like to be able to post a long o and long e, that is, an o with a bar on top or e with a bar on top — so I can transliterate an eta or omega into a long e or long o. But the symbols set has every odd looking e and o other than a long e and long o.
So I’m thinking I’m missing something obvious. Maybe I need to say “Mother, may I?” or “Simon says” or something.
Help!
I bet Les Miles knows how. Lol.
Standards-based browsers recognize a host of character sets. In order to specify which characters are generated by the browser when if loads a page, the tag must be altered. There is a reference here (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_charactersets.asp). That is the easy part. I have not yet found how to change the tag in WordPress. I assume it would be done in the theme editor. I just have not dug that far yet. Right now I am hoping the cocktail of Rocephin, Decadron, and Mucinex-D will speed me through final class preparation. Enjoy your trip!
I’m not a WordPress expert but I have seen this happen before to apps when the database character set was configured incorrectly and thus prevented the Unicode characters from being saved properly (http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets).
Tyndale unicode fonts
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It gives you a little toggle button on your windows task bar, down by the desktop button, time, etc that lets you switch in just about any application between Greek, Hebrew, and English…works like a charm!
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=unicode
well…they didn’t show up right on your blog. I typed one word in Greek and one in Hebrew…that is weird. It works in wordpress.com when I publish Greek and Hebrew words. Maybe just not in the comments?
Testing two keyboard programs I use-
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Price wrote,
I tried chewing grass. And wearing a hat. Didn’t help.
Chris,
Oddly enough, the browser has no trouble displaying the characters. But the HTML editor in WordPress converts the characters into garbage. But I’ve seen people do it … There’s a way.
Well Jay, the link I posted should give you the tools to post in Greek or Hebrew, just not comment in them. Have you tried it out?
Matt,
I installed the fonts, got the language bar to display on my tool bar, and it works great in the HTML editor — but doesn’t show when published. It’s just question marks.
I switch to EL and type, and up come the Greek characters, but they won’t display when published.
Any other thoughts?
I just did a test comment with the Tyndale fonts in wordpress.com and it worked just fine in the comments. Not sure why it won’t work with a hosted blog.
Matt,
Thanks for plugging away. I’ve asked Theobloggers for help because, like you, I think it’s a problem with my installation, not WordPress. We’ll see what they come up with.
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