Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

[Πιστιόλης Κωνσταντίνος <pistiolis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Την Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:06:07 +0100,ο(η) Jan Willem Stumpel  
<jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx> έγραψε/wrote:

> Πιστιόλης Κωνσταντίνος wrote:
> > Την Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:58:13 +0100,ο(η) Jan Willem Stumpel
> > <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx> έγραψε/wrote:
>
> > In ancient greek and modern "katharevousa" (a formal archaic greek)
> > there were three accents. [..]
>
> Thanks very much for this explanation. I put a digest of it on my
> ʽuser-levelʼ utf-8 page.
In that page you propose:
...A font which includes all accent combinations for Classical Greek is,
for instance, FreeSerif. The efont bitmap fonts (for xterm) also have  
them...

Which may or may not be valid depending which symbol your keymap produces
for acute (oxia or tonos). FreeSerif has a different symbol for 'tonos'
and 'oxia' and ancient greek is propably not viewed correctly if someone
types using the gr(polytonic) keymap with el_GR.UTF-8 locale

Check http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_gkbkgd.html#oxia
to see which fonts define different symbols

Kostas

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