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These are normally postfix operators, as in the examples above, but for capitalized words, accents come between the * and the letter. The documentation does not otherwise define a required or canonical order for accents. In some data sources, breathing is normally seen before a tonal accent, and one
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implementation defines a canonical order of breathing, accent, iota subscript. In some implementations, the ordering of the accents can determine the arrangement of the combining characters after conversion to Unicode. Many implementations do not implement macronization.
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for Greek sigma is sufficient; it is interpreted as a final sigma at the end of words or when followed by punctuation, and as a medial sigma in other positions. In cases where this auto-disambiguation is not correct, the specific codes
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The character ' is used both for encoding an apostrophe and for adding a metrical breve to a vowel. The intention is disambiguated because the apostrophe is used in Greek only for elision, which normally occurs after a consonant.
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Instead of upper-case Latin letters, lower-case Latin letters may also be used (e.g. a for α and *a for Α).
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The TLG Beta Code Manual uses upper-case ASCII letters to represent Greek letters. A variant (used by the
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is not supported/output by many applications such as Morpheus and uni2beta.
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Beta-Code-to-Unicode converter and Beta-Code-to-Polytonic-Greek type tool
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A Beta to Unicode reference guide has been developed by the TLG project (
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collection of Documentary Papyri, and the Greek Epigraphy Project at
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characters, the characters, accents, and formatting found in
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and was also used by a number of other projects such as the
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Index

Beta software
Greek text
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Greek letters
ASCII
ancient Greek
romanization
Greek alphabet
David W. Packard
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
polytonic
Greek
Perseus Project
Packard Humanities Institute
Duke
Cornell
Ohio State University
Unicode
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Digamma
Zeta
Eta
Theta
Iota
Kappa

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