[B-Greek] unicode for typing Greek
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 23 17:16:02 EST 2004
R Yochanan Bitan Buth <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>Personally, I would recommend using the national Greek typewriter
>keyboard layout as the base. The above link and layout are not such a
>keyboard.
>E.g., omega is 'v', upsilon is 'y' and theta is 'u', chi is 'x', psi
>is 'c' and ksi is 'j'. 'w' places a final-lunate-sigma. Fortunately,
>the others are similar to English.
>
>If one is going to use unicode one might as well use a standard
>keyboard. You just might be typing on a terminal in Athens someday.
I second this recommendation.
I've started doing this myself under XP. After a brief learning
curve, the keyboard layout is really quite nice with more of the
common characters on the home row. Plus, it makes it easier
to deal with visiting Greek websites, including one very nice
modern Greek to English on-line dictionary.
Stephen Carlson
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