[B-Greek] Nestle-Aland symbols in Unicode

Joseph Weaks j.weaks at tcu.edu
Thu Feb 10 12:23:55 EST 2005


On 2/10/05 11:01 AM, "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins at apple.com> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:07 AM, John McChesney-Young wrote:
> 
>> As of late last month the sigla were at stage 6 of 7 in the approval
>> process, and have the proposed range of 2E0E-2E16. Whether any
>> Unicode fonts include them yet I don't know.
>> 
> 
> They're in Unicode 4.1 which is being finalized even as we speak and
> will be official very, very soon.  As you say, however, goodness knows
> when they'll start showing up in fonts.  The best thing to do is to
> contact your favorite font vendor and ask.

They are already approved, and already available. Once a code point is
approved, font creators can safely begin to implement the characters. The
range is 2E00-2E16. Here's a test page for the GNT sigla and font
suggestions:
http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/unicode-characters-of-interest-to.
html

Cheers,
Joe

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