[Biblical-languages] Operating Systems for Greek and Hebrew

P. T. Rourke ptrourke at methymna.com
Mon Apr 28 13:24:49 EDT 2003


Great to see the list back up.

Windows XP Pro, at least, comes with a polytonic 
(Classical/Biblical/Pre-1978) Greek keyboard that you can install 
separately in the setup process.  I don't like the layout myself, but it 
works. 

The support for Greek in OS X (Macintosh) is very good now, except for 
Word Processing (MS Office doesn't support it, not really, nor does 
AppleWorks, even though TextEdit - the OS X analog to Notepad - does).  
Most of the iApps (Mail, iCal, Address Book, the Finder) work.  If you 
do get an Apple computer with OS X, you should download the Unicode 
version of GreekKeys (do a search, or if someone wants, I'll post the 
URL to the list later on).  The support for Hebrew in OS X is I believe 
another story, though Peter Constable would know more about that, I 
suspect.

Good luck




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