Beta Code
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Vinony files it under Computer-related introductions in 1979, Romanization of Greek and Writing systems introduced in the 1970s.
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Described at
Microsoft Word - BCM2015.doc
stephanus.tlg.uci.edu →3.4b. 400 to 699 – Including: Further Ancient Editorial Characters (including paragraphoi); Abbreviations (including Epiphanius& 39;ʹ Biblical abbreviations); Musical Characters ............. 49 2 The non-combining forms of the Beta Codes ), (, /, + and are given here for ease of reference only. The Beta Codes themselves map only onto the combining Unicode codepoints. 3 ‘spacing clone of Greek smooth breathing mark’ (Unicode Standard 5.0, p. 26). 1FBD Greek Koronis and 1FBE Greek Psili are duplicates of this character and should not be used. 4 ‘spacing clone of Greek rough breathing mark’ (Unicode Standard 5.0, p. 26). 1FFE Greek Dasia is a duplicate of this character and should not be used. 5 0384 Greek Tonos and 1FFD Greek Oxia are duplicates of this character and should not be used. 6 0342 is the combining diacritic the TLG uses for the Greek Circumflex Accent, it has a different glyph variant range from 0302 Combining Circumflex Accent.. 0302 is the combining diacritic the TLG recommends for use with Latin text. 7 1FC0 Greek Perispomeni shares the same glyph range as 0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni and so is to be used as its non-combining clone. 005E Circumflex Accent is the non-combining diacritic the TLG recommends for use with Latin text 8 1FEF Greek Varia is a duplicate of this character and should not be used. 9 The Unicode Standard 5.0 does not have a non-combining clone for Combining Dot Below. Currently, 002E Period represents a ‘best fit’ solution. 15 The Greek and Coptic alphabets are now disunified in the Unicode Standard. Bohairic Coptic letters are now in the Copic block (2C80-2CB1). Coptic letters derived from Demotic are still in the Greek and Coptic block (03E2-03EF).
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Wikidata facts
- Creator
- David Woodley Packard
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- uses
- ASCII
- described at URL
- stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/encoding/BCM.pdf
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- inception
- 1970-00-00
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Article · Español
El Beta Code (en inglés literalmente ‘código beta’) es un método de representar, usando solo caracteres ASCII, las letras y formatos presentes en textos escritos en griego antiguo (y otros lenguajes arcaicos). Su propósito no es ser meramente una romanización del alfabeto griego, sino representar fielmente una amplia variedad de textos originales, incluyendo su formato además de caracteres raros o idiosincráticos. El Beta Code fue desarrollado por David W. Packard a finales de los años 1970 y adoptado por el Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) en 1981. Se ha convertido en el estándar para codificar griego politónico y se usa también en diversos otros proyectos como el Perseus Project (que codifica todos sus textos en griego antiguo usando Beta Code, aunque puede reformatearlos de diversas formas al mostrarlos), el Packard Humanities Institute, la colección de Documentary Papyri de la Universidad de Duke y el Greek Epigraphy Project de las universidades de Cornell y Ohio. Sistemas como para teclear Beta Code pero general glifos griegos directamente en el texto introducido (en lugar de cuando se compone o muestra) son cada vez más populares, lo que ha hecho que el Beta Code, con algunas variaciones, se haya convertido en una especie de disposición de teclado universal para la escritura en griego politónico.
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