I used to be able to type in Greek with no problems using the Tyndale Unicode kit. For something reason or another that’s no longer available for download so I was forced to enable Greek on Windows. That was a bit different but it worked out well. I’d just hit Alt + Shift and switch from English to Greek with no problems and typing was a breeze. But now for some reason none of the keys output what they’re supposed to. I go to type something like Iesous and it looks like this “™µΓΏΈΓ.” Does anyone out there know what the problem might be and how I can fix it? I’ve tried disabling the Greek and then enabling it again. Didn’t do anything. I’ve switched fonts and that had zero effect as well. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
B”H
It’s not a font problem. It’s a keyboard mapping problem. When you press certain keys, you’re expecting certain results based on the tyndale keyboard layout, but because the default windows layout is different, you get different results. On a mac, it would be as simple as installing a new keyboard file, but I don’t know how it works on a pc…
By: Tim Ricchuiti on July 2, 2009
at 7:04 pm
Tim: That’s not the problem. The keyboard was working fine when I first started using it months ago. It’s only in the last few weeks that I’ve been having this problem.
By: Nick Norelli on July 2, 2009
at 9:04 pm
You may have enabled a third language. Can you cycle through all of them to see if the Greek is still enabled?
By: Nathan Stitt on July 2, 2009
at 11:38 pm
Nathan: I only have English and Greek enabled. I don’t know what the deal is. I didn’t change anything and all of a sudden it started acting up.
By: Nick Norelli on July 3, 2009
at 12:29 am
Try Tyndale again. I just re-checked, and it downloaded fine from: http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Fonts/Unicode.htm
If all else fails, it is still acting up, and you haven’t done too many other updates in the meantime, there’s always “system restore” ;-).
By: Ben on July 3, 2009
at 5:55 am
Ben: I ended up trying it again last night and I was able to download it. Unfotunately I had the same results. It produced weird symbols and not Greek. I suppose I could try a system restore but I can’t pinpoint when the problem started.
By: Nick Norelli on July 3, 2009
at 9:25 am
It might be an encoding problem. Perhaps you could try using Unicode UTF or something like that. I just checked Firefox and it is using a Western encoding, which it must have defaulted to when I switched to Firefox 3. I had it set on UTF-8 in Firefox 2 I think.
By: Nathan Stitt on July 3, 2009
at 6:43 pm
Nathan: That’s not it. I have this problem when I’m offline and just trying to type in MS Word as well. But I just checked and I’m set to UTF-8 on IE7.
By: Nick Norelli on July 3, 2009
at 6:49 pm
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