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Enabling polytonic Greek on Windows XP
Enabling Polytonic Greek for Mac OSX
See below, GreekKeys for Macintosh, for an alternative way of entering diacritics.GreekKeys is an inexpensive ($40) product, sold through the American Philological Association, for entering polytonic Unicode Greek on Mac OS X 10.2 and higher (recommended for those who use Macs). This page also contains a lot of information about Unicode, Greek encoding, using Unicode Greek on PCs.
SophoKeys
Freeware for writing polytonic Greek on a Mac using Beta Code.
Unicode Classical Greek Inputter
An easy-to-use web utility for entering small amounts of polytonic Unicode Greek. Enter Greek directly or choose from a menu of characters. Your text can then be pasted into any Unicode-compliant program like Word.More information.
New Athena Unicode font for Greek
Installation instructions for both Mac OS X and PC. Combined accents for polytonic Greek display well with this font; other Unicode fonts may display breathings and accents poorly.Adding Unicode characters using hexadecimal codes
If you know the code for the character you want to enter, you can enter it directly. In Word (PC), type the hexadecimal character and then ALT+x. To type combining accents (for instance, omikron + rough breathing + grave), type 03BF, then ALT+x, then 0300 and ALT+X, then 0314 and ALT+X. On a Mac, you can see and enter Unicode characters by hexadecimal code from the Character Palette (available from the Keyboard menu).Codes for Greek characters, accents, and related languages can be found at
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/quickbeta.pdf
and
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/precomposed.pdf
Need more help?
- Camilla MacKay, Head, Rhys Carpenter Library (BMC)
- Christine Boyland, Language Learning Center Director (BMC)
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