[B-Greek] Greek encoding

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 16 14:33:47 EDT 2007


On May 16, 2007, at 2:27 PM, S. Harrison wrote:

> Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>> On May 16, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Litteral John wrote:
>>
>>> I was curious to how this goes together.  The 'hn' has the breathing
>>> mark giving it the H sound.  Is there a special idiom to this?  How
>>> would this be translated.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> John Litteral
>>
>> I would urge you to use the standard B-Greek transliteration
>> scheme set forth at http://ibiblio.org/bgreek/bgtransliteration.html
>> as part of the FAQ: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.html
>
> What are the thoughts about using utf-8 encoding instead of ascii
> transliteration?

We have discussed this several times; currently our policy is that
list-members may cite Greek text in UTF-8 (Unicode) Greek, BUT
for the sake of those who cannot yet or do not yet know how to
set their mail program's encoding properly in order to read it, we
want those who give a UTF-8 Greek text ALSO to cite the
passage in the transliteration scheme.


Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





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