Talk:Callisthenes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, now in the public domain.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.
Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
WikiProject Ancient Egypt This article is part of WikiProject Ancient Egypt, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Egyptological subjects. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start This article has been rated as start-class on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Greece, an attempt to expand, improve and standardize the content and structure of articles related to Greece.
If you would like to participate, you can improve Callisthenes, or sign up and contribute in a wider array of articles like those on our to do list. If you have any questions, please consult the FAQ.
Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. (comments)
??? This article has not yet been prioritized.

The Greek characters as they appear in this article are illegible to me running mozilla on linux, but I have no trouble reading ΑΒΓΔ, etc., with mozilla (although netscape can't handle them). -- Mike Hardy

They don't look right to me, either, using IE 6. -- Zoe

They look definitely wrong. But I don't know greek enough to tell what they should be. FvdP

They are scanos: an OCR program's attempts to try to recognise squiggles in the Greek alphabet as squiggles and punctuation in the Latin alphabet. There are lots of these in the 1911 entries. The Anome

Are there OCR programs that are literate in Greek? -- Mike Hardy

Yes there are OCR programs with Greek language support. I think most of them have greek support but perhaps it should be specified within the installation program.

Can anyone explain to me what great nephew means?MATIA 09:21, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

A great nephew is the son of your nephew. Krateros1 09:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)