Greek and Hebrew in Google Docs and Windows Live SkyDrive

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Windows Live SkyDrive

 

Firefox 3.5

 
VIEW EDIT
   

Internet Explorer 8

 
VIEW EDIT
  • I'm not quite sure why, but viewing a document in SkyDrive has some font display problems. Once you click to Edit, you can see that it does a better job of figuring out what to do.
  • The differences in the Edit mode between Firefox and IE8 are largely due to the fact that I have my default Greek font in FF set to Cardo. It's set to the default TimesNewRoman in IE8. In both browsers, TimesNewRoman doesn't have a full set of accented Greek characters, so it automatically replaces those characters with the Tahoma font. (If you look closely, you can see that is the case in TNR at 12pt, but it is quite clear w/ TNR at 14pt.)
   

Open and Edit in MSWord (2007) from IE8

Copy into MSWord (2007) from IE8

GoogleDocs

 

Firefox 3.5

Internet Explorer 8

Note that Google Docs does not offer Calibri as a font option and so changes it to Arial when copy/pasted in.