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Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period.The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής, romanized: polytonikó sýstīma grafī́s), which includes five diacritics, notates Ancient Greek phonology.
Even when present-day Greek is spelled in the traditional polytonic system, the number of instances where a subscript could be written is much smaller than in older forms of the language, because most of its typical grammatical environments no longer occur: the old dative case is not used in modern Greek except in a few fossilized phrases (e.g ...
The ano teleia middot serves as the Greek semicolon, but is so uncommon that it has often been left off of Greek keyboards. [5] One of the few places where ano teleia exists is on the Microsoft Windows Polytonic Greek keyboard (having the driver name KBDHEPT.DLL). The exclamation mark (θαυμαστικό thavmastikó) is mostly used as in ...
Beta Code was a method of representing, using only ASCII characters, the characters, accents, and formatting found in ancient Greek texts (and other ancient languages). Its aim was to be not merely a romanization of the Greek alphabet, but to represent faithfully a wide variety of source texts – including formatting as well as rare or idiosyncratic characters.
Code page 737 (CCSID 737) [1] (also known as CP 737, IBM 00737, and OEM 737, [2] MS-DOS Greek [3] or 437 G [4]) is a code page used under DOS to write the Greek language. [5] It was much more popular than code page 869 although it lacks the letters ΐ and ΰ.
Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), [1] commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 [2] or abbreviated as cp1253, [3] [4] is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek.
Gentium has wide support for languages using the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Gentium Plus variants released since November 2010 now include over 5,500 glyphs and advanced typographic features through OpenType and formerly Graphite. [2] Gentium was designed for use at 10-11 points.
Windows Polytonic Greek is a modification of Windows-1253 that was used by Paratype to cover Polytonic Greek. This encoding is supported by FontLab Studio 5. [1]