[Biblical-languages] Greek apostrophe
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Thu May 1 19:55:01 EDT 2003
Can anyone advise me which Unicode character should be used for the Greek
apostrophe, as in a phrase like AP' ARCHS? There seem to be a number of
candidates:
0027 - the easy way out!;
02BC - probably not as this is supposed to be a letter of the alphabet;
1FBD - this is called KORONIS, which according to Liddell and Scott (!) may
mean "a flourish with the pen at the end of a book: generally, the end,
completion";
1FBF - probably not a this is called PSILI which seems to mean smooth
breathing;
2019 - Unicode's "preferred character for apostrophe", but they may be
thinking of Latin script here.
Which codes are used in existing Unicode Greek texts? (One text I have has
02BC.) Which are supported in fonts? (In Galatia SIL, 0027 is a straight
apostrophe, 02BC is omitted, and the last three have apparently identical
glyphs looking like a smooth breathing.) And which are generated by
keyboards?
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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