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ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. [2] It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern Greek language. The ...
It is also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, [2] [3] the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack [4] for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. [5] It is not available as a freeware for use in other operating systems such as Linux, cross-platform use, and web use.
The font was created by Adobe and has its own character encoding, with the Greek letters arranged according to similar Latin letters (Chi = C, etc.).The document describing the mapping to Unicode code points [2] was created before several of the characters were added to Unicode, so the original mapping assigns several of the characters to the Private Use Area (PUA).
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4] Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
Gentium Book Plus font with 'a' and 'g' set to primer style Andika font with two features selected. Variant forms of many characters can be chosen in the word-processor. For example, for primer-style 'a' and 'g', append ss01=1 to the name of the font in the font-selection window. [9] (Features are appended with a colon and linked with an ...
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 .
The Greek Font Society (Greek: Εταιρεία Ελληνικών Τυπογραφικών Στοιχείων) is a non-profit organization in Greece, founded in 1992, devoted to improving the standard of Greek digital typography. It has issued four digital fonts, all with full polytonic support:
English: typeface samples showing the design of uppercase and lowercase Greek numerals Stigma and Koppa in various modern computer fonts. Notice how some G-shaped versions of capital Stigma in some fonts are indistinguishable from similar versions of Koppa in others (red) Font designs: MgOldTime UC Pol: by Magenta; Galatia SIL: by SIL International