Unicode

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...

What Is Unicode? Part III.1

If you want to use Unicode in your dissertation, let's say, but you don't want to have to go back through the whole thing yourself to change all the Greek or Hebrew over, check out this list of Unicode converters.

What is Unicode? Part I

If you type in Greek and Hebrew—or plan to or should—you need to know about Unicode. What is Unicode? Maybe the simplest answer is this: Unicode is a way to type in any human script—from Sanskrit to Greek, from Cyrillic to Hebrew—without changing the font you’re...

What is Unicode? Part III

Parts I and II of this series are available here and here. The Mac portion of this post was updated with the help of friend and fellow BJU PhD grad Jon Cheek on 12/05/2019. How to Install Unicode For even more information on Unicode fonts, check out David...

What is Unicode? Part II

In Part I of "What is Unicode?" we learned why Unicode will help you, my target audience, type Greek and Hebrew. Now let's get more specific. When you hit the "a" key on your keyboard, your computer tells Microsoft Word, let's say, to output not "a" but "0041." Then...