The koronis (often latinized as coronis) is a diacritic used in Ancient Greek texts (although later, not at the time they were written).
It's written over a vowel to indicate contraction by crasis. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crasis#Greek James On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:51 AM, IS META <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear subscribers to the Unicode public general mail list, > Can anyone tell me what the intended use(s) of the character ᾽ (U+1FBD > GREEK KORONIS) is/are, please? Or, failing that, where I can find out? > > Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Apologies if this is > not the right forum in which to ask this question. > > Yours faithfully, > I.S.M.E.T.A. > -- James Tauber http://jtauber.com/ @jtauber on Twitter
