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![]() ![]() Because there are multiple ways to encode a single character in Unicode, Unicode supports normalizing strings. ![]() Unicode has the idea of canonical equivalence, where two characters are considered "the same". Each of these have their own set of Unicode codepoints.įrom the above it seems obvious that at DP we would want to use the oxia Unicode characters, as most of the books we are likely to run into will be using the polytonic Greek. Polytonic Greek uses the oxia forms - this is where we find not only the above two, but also, the grave accent, the circumflex, and rough and smooth breathing marks. Monotonic Greek uses the tonos forms, and is limited to the acute accent ( ´) and the diaeresis ( ¨). Greek has two vowel accent forms: oxia (aka: acute) and tonos. Monotonic Greek is very new, officially, having been imposed by law in 1982, though the simplification started much earlier in the 20th century. There are two forms of Greek: polytonic and monotonic. This page discusses why but it really boils down to Unicode forcing our hand. Given extensive research and conversation, we chose to support tonos Greek letterforms during the proofreading arounds at DP, leaning on the Post-Processors to convert back to the oxia/accute ones. ![]()
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