Abecedarian Encoding of Ancient Greek

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Encode Greek characters simply by typing with the analogous American keyboard keys to transliterate.
But transliterate the eight characters that are more unusual as below, i.e., either as Unicode or as ASCII.

Unicode

αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ

(works well in Word 2004)		 American Standard Code for Information Interchange

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

(works well for cross-platform email & web pages)

z = zeta
h = eta
u = theta

j = xi
w = terminal sigma

f = phi
x = chi
c = psi

y = upsilon
v = omega

q = question mark

; = acute (enter before vowel)

(use Character Palette
to enter all other polytonic characters)



x03DB = stigma ϛ
x03DD = digamma ϝ

 z = zeta
h = eta
q = theta

c = xi
j = terminal sigma

f = phi
x = chi
y = psi

u = upsilon
w = omega

; = question mark

/ = acute
\ = grave
| = iota subscript
= = circumflex
) = smooth breathing
( = rough breathing

v = stigma
V = digamma


Recommended
Unicode Greek fonts:

  • Gentium
  • Alkaios
  • TITUS
  • New Athena Unicode

    • Recommended
    ASCII Greek fonts:

  • Grenet
  • SPIonic


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    Links with more information:

  • Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web
  • Windows Keyboard Layouts: choose Greek Polytonic
  • GreekKeys for Macintosh
  • The TLG Beta Code Manual
  • SPIonic Keyboard Map
  • Palatino Unicode, Arial Unicode MS, Lucinda Sans Unicode, Tahoma
  • Lucinda Grande, Helvetica, Times
  • Digital LSJ reviewed in BMCR

    • This abecedarian Web page resource has been made available by Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey