Full character set / font for ancient Greek?
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From: Eric74 on 28 Nov 2009 17:54 Where can I find a font which includes the full character set for ancient Greek? The standard Times New Roman and Arial have some of them but not all of them - at least in the versions that I have on my PC (Windows XP with Word 2003). For example, the font does not have the "smooth breathing" or "rough breathing" symbols, or the iota subscript, or the grave or circumflex accents - all of which are a standard part of the orthography of ancient Greek. Thanks.
From: Yves Dhondt on 28 Nov 2009 18:24 I believe the Galatia SIL font has all of them although it has been a couple of years since I used it. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILgrkuni Yves "Eric74" <Eric74(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:87D17BBE-23A5-47A8-A344-14946EB4B971(a)microsoft.com... > Where can I find a font which includes the full character set for ancient > Greek? The standard Times New Roman and Arial have some of them but not > all > of them - at least in the versions that I have on my PC (Windows XP with > Word > 2003). > > For example, the font does not have the "smooth breathing" or "rough > breathing" symbols, or the iota subscript, or the grave or circumflex > accents > - all of which are a standard part of the orthography of ancient Greek. > > Thanks. > >
From: Peter T. Daniels on 28 Nov 2009 23:10
"Polytonic Greek" is housed in the Greek Extended range of Unicode, 1F00-1FFF. Among the fonts that include the entire range are Arial, Arial Unicode, Courier New, Microsoft Sans Serif, Palatino Linotype (not sure where I got that one -- I didn't specifically download it, so it may have come with Windows or Office), Tahoma, and Times New Roman. Also Gentium, which is a free font from SIL that also covers the IPA (but not Phonetic Extended) and eventually will include Cyrillic. Once you've installed the appropriate keyboard (using Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options), you'll want to download the very elaborate "How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Windows XP" from the Microsoft website (unfortunately the printout doesn't include its url); it works exactly the same in Vista (and presumably Windows 7). On Nov 28, 5:54 pm, Eric74 <Eri...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Where can I find a font which includes the full character set for ancient > Greek? The standard Times New Roman and Arial have some of them but not all > of them - at least in the versions that I have on my PC (Windows XP with Word > 2003). > > For example, the font does not have the "smooth breathing" or "rough > breathing" symbols, or the iota subscript, or the grave or circumflex accents > - all of which are a standard part of the orthography of ancient Greek. > > Thanks. |