Unicode Greek: Computing Tools For Classicists

Fonts:

• KadmosU
  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html.
  
• Font Archives
  http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_GreekPoly2.html.
  http://gainsford.tripod.com/fonts_unicode.htm.

Keyboards:

• Macintosh:
  
  • http://www.sourcecod.com/sophokeys/.
    
• PC:
  
  • Instructions for default windows Greek keyboard
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/wrg_redirect.asp?URL=polytonic.
    
  • More intuitive Keyman Keyboard
    http://members.aol.com/AtticGreek/.
    
  • More
    http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/WindowsFAQ.html#windowsUnicode.

Unicode Text Conversion Tools:

• There is a website that provides conversion of a few fonts
  http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode-converter/.
  
• There is a website that provides conversion of Betacode to Unicode
  http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ConvertGreek.asp.
• There are two Macintosh programs that facilitate other kinds of conversion
  http://alpha.furman.edu/~cblack01/greek_stuff.html.
  http://www.lucius-hartmann.ch/programme/gkconver.php.
  
• There are several utilities for the PC listed here
  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/WindowsFAQ.html#convert.
  

TLG Viewing Software:

• Diogenes, a versatile, fast, and freely available search and viewing tool by Peter Heslin
  http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/index.php.
  
• More, advanced, and proprietary viewing software
  http://www.tlg.uci.edu/Software.html. 
  

Something Nice:

• Perseus Unicode Display configuration
  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/dispconf?url=morphindex%3Flang%3Dgreek.
  

Further Reading

• http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/greek.html This website, maintained by Luc Devroye, has an extensive list of links to Greek fonts and other resources related to Unicode Greek.
• http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm This is Rodney Decker’s website, devoted to bringing Biblical scholars up to date on Unicode Greek. There are many useful links and explanations here.
• http://omega.enstb.org/yannis Yannis Haralambous’s website contains a number of extensive, detailed, and scholarly articles regarding the implementation of Greek Unicode.
• http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html This is Donald Mastronarde’s website, devoted to the American Philological Association’s extensive work on Greek in computing. Worth mentioning is that it maintains and distributes new forms of various Unicode fonts such as KadmosU, BosporosU, and AtticaU. KadmosU is noteworthy for its beauty. All these fonts are especially helpful for Copticists, since they include the recently standardized Coptic text block.
• http://unicode.helmug.gr This website, maintained by the Hellenic Mac User Group, deals with Unicode issues.
• http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.htm Russell Cottrell has a very nice display of some of the Unicode Greek fonts that are available.
• http://www.scholarsfonts.net David Perry, owner of this website, has provided very good explanations of Greek Unicode, and has created his own font, which incorporates Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
• http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode.html This website, maintained by Nick Nicholas, presents a very extensive discussion about Unicode and Greek, getting into issues of concern to philologists. He presents explanations of how Unicode interacts with editorial marks and unusual letter forms, such as the two types of qoppa.
• http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.html The Thesaurus Lingae Graecae has a long page listing available Unicode Greek fonts. To configure your web browser to view Unicode Greek on the internet, they have very good advice here: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help6.html.
• http://www.unicode.org This is the official website of the Unicode Consortium. It contains a plethora of information about the Unicode standard. Of interest to Classicists will be their section on Greek: http://www.unicode.org/faq/greek.html.

Special thanks to Joel Kalvesmaki of Dumbarton Oaks for his work and aid in assembling this information.