[B-Greek] Adding accents

Timothy S. Nelson wayland at wayland.id.au
Tue Feb 16 20:51:54 EST 2010


On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, David E. Kiefer, Registrar wrote:

> I think this may have to do more with the font than with the operating
> system. The font I use on a Mac (Helena) works exactly this way --  you
> type a breathing mark, accent, combination of the two, or iota-subscript
> AFTER the character it goes with.

 	All fonts work that way.  The "dead keys" stuff I was talking about is 
really a holdover from the old days when things were done differently, when it 
didn't use to be the responsibility of the font, but of the OS.

 	And my point is, this should be possible on any OS that uses Unicode. 
As you saw, both Daniel and I know how to set this up for our respective 
OSs, but were unable to give directions on exactly what to do for other 
operating systems.  This is why the original poster (Ruth) still hasn't been 
given a solution to her Mac problem.  But hopefully this thread will help her 
(and others who search the archive in the future) to fix things for 
themselves.

 	:)


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