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Greek alphabet help

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Byron Quick

Staff In Memoriam
The omega in the Molon labe portion of my sig line is read as a 'W' here on TFL. It is read correctly as an omega at THR. Does anyone know how to correct this?
 
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Mal H

Staff
The omega is an omega as I see the signature. I would suspect that you have an odd font assigned within your browser.
 
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TheBluesMan

Moderator Emeritus
I see it as a 'W' too... on an iMac that doesn't have an up-to-date OS or browser. I suspect that Mal is correct, that the font assigned in each person's browser will affect how it is seen.
 
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Mal H

Staff
Byron, looking at the source code of your signature, it is:
<font size="3"><b><font color="red"><font face="symbol"><br />
MOLWN LABE!</font></font></b></font><br />
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So if the "symbol" font isn't available on your machine, you will only see the modern letter equivalent of the Greek letters.
 
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Jason Demond

New member
This is how I see it.
MOLON LABE!

I see the one in my sig line as ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕʹ.

What does mine look like to you guys?
 
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Mal H

Staff
It's Greek to me! ;)

However, yours has an unprintable character after it unlike Byron's. It is probably an exclamation point, but for some reason it comes out as a small square (same as it does in the body of your post).
 
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Don Gwinn

Staff Emeritus
Jason's final character looks like an asterisk with the newest Mozilla, but Byron's whole "MOLON LABE" looks just like that--modern english alphabet all the way.
 
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Mal H

Staff
Don, it's your "symbol" font. IOW, there is no translation of the characters as Byron has the words as you describe them in his signature.

Byron - you changed the W to an O, right? Now it's coming out as an omicron. You might want to shamelessly copy the words from Jason's signature and paste in yours. The last character should be an exclamation point.
 
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