What Is Unicode? Part IV

So how do I type in Greek with Unicode?

a = α

That’s easy.

b = β

Yeah, yeah.

It gets trickier, however. If you installed my keyboard layout (which is a slightly-tweaked version of Tyndale House’s), here are the characters which might not be so obvious:

j (or v) = ς (I added “j” to match the BibleWorks Greek font; I’m just so used to it after six years.)

f = φ

h = η

q = θ

x = ξ

c = χ

y = ψ

Now for the Really Tricky Stuff

But how do you use accents? I admit it; sometimes I give up and just use the Character Viewer in OS X if I can’t remember the right key combination for acute + rough breather, for example. But there are ways, and I hope to master them myself soon. Here they are:

=a = ᾶ

/a = ὰ

‘a = ἀ

“a = ἁ

/a = ά

There’s really no way to learn but by doing—and by doing with reference to this excellent page on Tyndale House’s site. Note only that I have changed the ϡ to a ς to match BibleWorks’ layout.

For Hebrew in Unicode, I think I’m going to have to add one more part to this series. Stay tuned.