[B-Greek] Frustrated Greek Learner!!![Scanned]

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Tue Sep 7 13:29:03 EDT 2004


Just a word of caution. Unicode is great (& Keyman is the best way to enter it on Windows--wish there was something quite as slick on Mac!), but the "language support" in Windows and in the various MS Office products that is labeled "Greek" is **modern, monotonic** Greek. Since the Greek with which this list is concerned is polytonic, there are some discrepancies. E.g., what may look like an acute accent on a vowel using Windows Greek language setting is actually a tonos--the single modern Greek monotonic accent, not an acute--which has a separate code point in Unicode. And of course grave, circumflex, etc. don't exist at all in monotonic. Also sorting (the original question on this thread) will not sort polytonic correctly.

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Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Assoc. Professor/NT
Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, USA
URL: www.NTResources.com  
PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>

  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces.at.lists.ibiblio.org at bgreek.at.ntresou
> rces.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey T. Requadt
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:26 AM
> To: B-Greek Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Frustrated Greek Learner!!![Scanned]
> 
> If you have Windows XP, the language capabilities are much 
> better than older versions and you can actually simply 
> install the Greek language set by going through the Control 
> Panel, installing the Greek, and then switching languages 
> when you need to type in Greek. Also, I have found the Greek 
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