[B-Greek] AlphabeticizingGreek
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Sep 8 15:13:02 EDT 2004
I just checked how well Access 2003 sorts Unicode Greek.
Like Excel, Access sorts decomposed Unicode Greek just fine, but does not
sort precomposed Unicode Greek properly because it ignores any characters in
the Extended Greek block (I.e. any accented characters).
The solution seems simple enough: Use the combining diacritics rather than
the Extended Greek block to accent the polytonic Greek you want to sort.
This is also the answer to Rod Decker's wish that he could type the accent
after the vowel.
The only keyboard I know of for typing the combining diacritics is Ralph
Hancock's Antioch, for Word for Windows.
Again, those on other platforms may type precomposed Unicode Greek (NFC) and
convert it to decomposed (NFD) using
http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/convert.htm
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
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> Thanks for the feedback. I imagine that Access would be
> pretty much at
> the same stage, ie now able to work with Unicode and therefore of some
> use for Greek, but without the ability to do the customized sorting we
> would wish. But this is a guess - does anyone know? It certainly
> didn't strike me as suitable for serious NT Greek work when I last
> looked at it with such a view in mind, but that was not the current
> version, which is itself now some years old.
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