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ASCII representation format for ancient Greek

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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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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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Le Beta Code est un système de représentation des caractères et de la ponctuation de plusieurs langues anciennes (dont notamment le grec ancien), à l’aide des caractères ASCII. Son but n’est pas tant de décrire une norme de romanisation que de représenter fidèlement une grande variété de textes anciens, la mise en page et les caractères rares y compris. Le Beta Code fut développé par David W. Packard à la fin des années 1970 et adopté par le Thesaurus Linguae Graecae en 1981. C’est depuis devenu un standard pour l’écriture du grec polytonique. Il a été utilisé par plusieurs autres projets, dont le Perseus Project, le Packard Humanities Institute, la collection de papyrus de l’université Duke, et le Greek Epigraphy Project de l’université Cornell et de l’Ohio State University. Des logiciels tels que Sophokeys permettent d’écrire directement du texte en grec ancien en le tapant sous forme de Beta Code ; de plus en plus populaires, ils ont fait du Beta Code une méthode universelle d’entrée de texte en grec polytonique.

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