On 29/06/2004 16:07, busmanus wrote:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters (rather than separate diacritics as Ken suggested) or need to do so to meet W3C recommendations, you should use the ones in the Extended Greek section, which allow for a distinction between acute and grave accents which is important for Classical Greek.I have a (hopefully) short question about "polytonic" Greek support. Does anyone know what the idea was behind encoding Greek vowel+acute combinations (without apirates, etc.) twice: first in the Basic Greek section as vowel+tonos, for the second time in the Extended Greek section as vowel+oxia? What is the recommended usage for Classical Greek (and why is it better)?
You may like to look at Nick Nicholas' Greek Unicode site at http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode.html, which discusses these issues.
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