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Here are instructions for typing in Unicode Polytonic Greek. This will enable you to create Greek documents, web sites, and emails which most current browsers will display properly. It also will allow you to change Unicode fonts without any confusion of characters.
Installation of mutlilanguage support and keyboard layout for Greek
All operating systems are not created equal. Currently Apple’s Mac has a notable edge for typing polytonic Greek in Unicode when comparing their normal accenting systems. Mac operating systems allow for multiple dead key combinations (select breathing, select accent, select subscript and then finally select a letter) and Windows systems only allow for a single dead key. The result is that windows has a key for each possible accent, breather and subscript combination. However, I have created a remedy keyboard for Windows systems called EZAccent and have it freely available for you below (as long as this site remains the only place to download it – I may find some slight improvement tweaks in the future and don’t want multiple versions confusing people.) I have not yet figured out how to do the same thing for Mac’s but its native system is sufficient. The following is how to step up a Greek polytonic keyboard on each of these systems.
Windows Operating Systems –
Download John Schwandt’s EZAccent Keyboard EZAccent.zip
- Double click EZAccent.zip and then save the zip file to your local machine.
- Once you have the file on your machine (probably in your downloads folder), double click it to browse the files inside it.
- Double click on the setup file to install the keyboard.
- You will see a confirmation window once the keyboard is installed.
- You now can type in Greek. Simply press Alt+Shift to switch between English and Greek keyboards and make sure that you are using a unicode font like Palatino Linotype, Minion Pro, Gentium etc. See Greek Font Links and Downloads for a list of free Unicode fonts and where to get more.
- Please read my instruction document (Greek_Polytonic_Easy_Accent_Instructions.pdf) explaining how the keyboard works. There is a quick summary below in the Typing in Unicode Greek section.
- Search results for greek font, free downloads of greek fonts at Fonts101.com.
- Download free Athenian font from EagleFonts.com. Download free TrueType Greek Fonts. Available in TrueType (.TTF) format for Windows & Mac. Preview Athenian.ttf font by typing your own text. Biggest searchable database of free TrueType fonts.
Greek Keyboard for Mac operating systems
- Click on the apple symbol in the the upper left of tool bar.
- On the drop-down menu select System Preferences.
- In the “system preferences” window that will open, click on the Language & Text icon.
- In the “Language & Text” window that will open, click on the Input Sources button/tab.
- Select the Greek Polytonic checkbox.
- Make sure the “keyboard & character viewer” box is checked as well.
- Make sure the “Show input menu in menu bar” box (in the lower right of the window) is checked.
- Close the windows and now you should see a US flag in your menu bar (upper right).
- Click on the flag to see a drop down menu with a Greek flag.
- Select the Greek flag to switch your keyboard to a Greek Unicode keyboard.
- Click on the keyboard viewer to see which keys produce which letters and accents (Pressing shift changes the contents of the viewer). Further down on this web page are tips for typing in Greek.
Mac (older operating system) OS X Tiger
- Click on the apple symbol in the the upper left of tool bar.
- On the drop-down menu select System Preferences.
- In the “system preferences” window that will open, click on the International icon.
- In the “Language & Text” window that will open, click on the Input Menu button/tab.
- Select the Greek Polytonic checkbox.
- Make sure the “Show input menu in menu bar” box (in the lower left of the window) is checked.
- Close the windows and now you should see a US flag in your menu bar (upper right).
- Click on the flag to see a drop down menu with a Greek flag.
- Select the Greek flag to switch your keyboard to a Greek Unicode keyboard.
- Click on the keyboard viewer to see which keys produce which letters and accents (Pressing shift changes the contents of the viewer). Further down on this web page are tips for typing in Greek.
Typing in Unicode Greek
After adding Greek to your operating system and installing the keyboard you are ready to start typing in Greek Polytonic Unicode. Note: Always make sure that your font is a font that supports polytonic Greek Unicode characters. If you are sending an email or publishing on the web, the most widely available polytonic Greek Unicode font is Palatino Linotype. Remember if you send an email or write a web page with a font that their viewer doesn’t have, it won’t display properly. Hear a couple ways of typing in Greek polytonic Unicode.
Windows EZAccent Polytonic Greek Keyboard –
If you have any Windows operating system I hope you have chosen to use my (John Schwandt’s) EZAccent Windows keyboard. I have found that is the easiest system for typing all of the diacritical marks while typing Greek. It runs within your operating system so you can use in anywhere in your system (in any program). If you want a letter to have a breathing mark simply type ‘q’ first for your smooth breather and ‘Q’ for your rough breather. If you want to accent a letter (evening after selecting a breathing mark) simply remember that shift + your vowel is the acute, alt+ctrl (or right alt) + your vowel is the grave, and all three shift+alt+ctrl (or shift+right alt) + your vowel makes the circumflex. I explain the iota subscript combinations in the instruction document. I also have pictures of the keyboard layout there.
I think this is the most effortless system for typing in Greek since you select the accenting at the same time as the vowel rather than before it. It also uses the Greek national keyboard layout for the location for all of the letters. The only downside that in Microsoft Word there are a few shift states that Microsoft decided to use as hot-keys (which should have been reserved for foreign language keyboards). You can disable these in Word if the program attempts to do something other than type a character. (That is what I did and now can’t remember what they were.) If you find any of these to disable (you can accent correctly in other applications like Facebook but not Word), please let me know so I can add this list and instructions for Word to the instruction document.
Remember take a look at the instruction document for all of the details and pictures of how the keyboard works.
Mac Polytonic Greek Keyboard –
There are a number of ways to type accents and breathers with the Mac keyboard. Some involve memorizing a long list of keys with all of the various accenting combinations like Windows symbols. I prefer simply learning one key for each accent type and then typing any number of them before the letter that you wish to accent. Why not use the advantages of your Mac?
This is what I do.
- Type the quote mark for a smooth breather and the shift plus this key with yield a rough breather.
- Type the colon for an acute accent (FYI the shift plus this key will yield a dieresis but this isn’t used frequently.)
- Type the right bracket ] for a grave (FYI the shift plus this key yields the same thing.)
- Type the left bracket [ for a circumflex and the shift plus this key with yield a iota subscript .
Those four keys can be used in any combination to produce any combination of additional symbols on over your Greek characters. Remember to select your accents before your vowel.
Other Keyboard Options
Tyndale House Unicode Font Kit
There are download links for both PC and Mac in the right sidebar. It uses slashes for accents and shift states for breathing marks. Some of the consonant positions on the keyboard are more consistent with legacy fonts rather than the ethnic national Greek keyboard layout.
Native Microsoft Polytonic Greek Keyboard –
This is keyboard is awkward to use, but it works in most applications, especially Microsoft programs. To do this click on the “EN” in your bottom tool bar and switch your keyboard to “EL” (Greek). Often times ALT-SHIFT is a default hot key combination to do this. Now you should be typing in Greek according to this keyboard map. Here is another page with these instructions: http://www.dramata.com/Ancient%20polytonic%20Greek%20in%20Windows.pdf
The following is a list of key combinations to type in Unicode Greek using an English keyboard. It might differ between different keyboards.
ά type ;a
ὰ type ]a
ᾶ type [a
ἀ type ‘a
Greek Font Text
ἁ type “a
ἄ type /a
ἅ type ?a
ἂ type a
ἃ type |a
ἆ type =a
ἇ type +a
ᾳ type {a
ᾀ type {ctrl} {alt} ;a
ᾲ type {ctrl} {alt} ]a
ᾷ type {ctrl} {alt} [a
Setup instructions for Windows 7
- Click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Click on Clock, Language and Region.
- Click on Change keyboards and other input methods.
- A window will appear. Click the Change Keyboards button.
- A window will appear with three tabs. The “general” tab is the that is open by default. Click the Add button.
- You will see a list of keyboards based on languages. Scroll down and click on Greek, and then select Greek Polytonic keyboard.
- Click OK. You can now switch between typing in Greek (with accents) and English (when you are using a Unicode font). (You can see graphics of the Greek keyboard layouts below on this website.)
Windows XP-
- Go into the control panel
- In the Windows XP standard Start menu, click Start, and then click Control Panel.
- In the Windows XP classic Start menu, click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click Regional and Language Options.
- Click the Languages tab, and then click Details under “Text Services and Input Languages”.
- Click Add under “Installed Services”, and then click Greek Polytonic to add and the keyboard layout for the language.
- To configure the settings for the Language bar, click Language Bar under “Preferences”.
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Keyman Greek Keyboard:
There is a shell program that is easier to use than the native keyboard, but is a secondary program that runs in addition to Windows. The accenting is far more intuitive than the native Window polytonic Greek symbols, but some of the characters are different than the ethnic Greek keyboard. You type the accent or breathing after a vowel and only need to learn the location of five accent keys instead of fourteen (above). If you want a circumflex with a breather, click the circumflex key then the breathing key. You can watch the accented letter change before your eyes. If you click the wrong accent, simply click the proper one without having to delete. The accents change as you type them. This is very handy. In order to get a final sigma you have to download the Classical Greek keyboard by Mauel Lopez. The only problems that I have experienced is using with some non Microsoft programs like Word Perfect. Click here to go to the keyman site to download the program. This is the keyboard layout map for Keyman.
Other Options (Unitype):
This is a program for typing Unicode in Microsoft XP/2000 Software. There is a free demo available. Here is the link: http://www.unitype.com/
There is also a web page that allows one to type in Greek Unicode. You can right click on the page and click “view source”. Then copy all and save it as an HTM page that you can run from your desktop rather than using it online. Here is the link: http://www.users.ox.ac.uk/~tay|0010/letters_caretpos2.htm
Arial Greek (arial.zip)
Times New Roman Greek (times.zip)
Avant Greek TrueType (avant.zip))
Download the font file or files to your disk and execute the relative '.exe' to extract the appropriate fonts. From the Control Panel, double-click on Fonts icon, and press the Add button.
Select the fonts that you would like to install and click OK.
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Fonts. Select Greek in the 'Language Script' area.
At the Web-page font select a Greek one you have extracted e.g. Arial Greek and at the Fixed-width font select Courier New.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Languages. Add the greek language at the list and put it at the top.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Encoding - Greek ISO, or View - Encoding - Greek (Windows). Also, if the Autoselect option is checked, uncheck it.
Greek font for Mac (mac_928.sit.hqx)
Downolad and decompress the file. After decompression place new fonts in the fonts folder, which is in your system folder.
Netscape (versions 4.5 and higher):
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts.
Here, you should change 'For the Encoding' to Greek,and select fonts (from the new installed) for the Variable Width Font and the Fixed Width Font. For the 'Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts.' option, select Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Languages.
Here, you should add the Greek language and put it on top of the list.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set - Greek ISO-8859-7. Also select View - Character Set - Set Default Encoding.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions 5.x:
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Edit - Preferences - Languages/Fonts. Add Greek language in the list.
Select one font from those you've just installed at the fonts selections.
Select ISO 8859-7 as the default Character set.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set - Greek ISO 8859-7.
Windows Greek keyboard installation
Go to: Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Langage options -> tab Languages -> button Details. You will probably have only English there, so if you do not see Greek, click on Add..., and select Greek from the list.
You should now see GR Greek Greek. There are various layouts available, highlight the line for Greek, and click on Properties, there you can select other Greek keyboard layouts, like Polytonic Greek (applicable only to Windows XP).
Before clicking the OK button, choose which key combination you want for the Switch languages option, I prefer Ctrl+Shift but you can have Left Alt+Shift. So select whichever you want and make sure that the 'Enable indicator in taskbar' option is checked. Also, depending on which language you will be using more often, you can chose to set one of the languages as the default (indicating which keyboard driver should be active when Windows starts up).
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How to use the Greek keyboard:
Use Ctrl+Shift or Left Alt+Shift to switch between the English and Greek keyboards or any other installed keyboards. To type an accented vowel, press the ';' (semicolon) key and then the vowel (separately). To use the diaeresis (like umlaut) accent, press ':' (colon - that is, Shift+semicolon) before the vowel.
To use both diaeresis and accent on ι ( ΐ ) and υ (ΰ), press Right Alt+Shift+: before the vowel. To type ';' (the Greek question mark) and ':' (colon / ano-kato teleia) you need to press 'Q' and 'SHIFT-Q' respectively.
The Greek semicolon ('ano teleia') is missing as it was not included by ELOT in the Greek standards! There is a trick however to add it to your keyboard. From Word for Windows go to Insert -> Symbol -> and find the Greek semicolon symbol (8th line 7th character from the left) -> Select Shortcut Key -> In the field Press New Shortcut Key press the keys Ctrl+Shift+colon (the key immediately to the right of the 'L' key) -> Click Assign. This is it. From now on the Greek semicolon will appear on Word when you press Ctrl+Shift+colon.
In some applications, Left Alt+Shift may not switch keyboards. You may be able to manually switch the keyboard by clicking the 'En' or 'Gr' icon in the taskbar or select and use the alternative keyboard shortcut provided which is Ctrl+Shift.
Using the Greek keys
You can use a utility like Microsoft Visual keyboard if you are confused as to which English keys correspond to which Greek letters.
Microsoft Visual keyboard supports typing in more than one language on the same computer by showing you a keyboard for another language on your screen. You might use Visual Keyboard when you change your keyboard layout from one language to another. When you change keyboard layouts, the characters you see as you type might not correspond with your keyboard. Visual Keyboard lets you see the keyboard for the language you've switched to on your screen so that you can either click the keys on your screen or see the correct keys to press to enter text.
Displaying Greek text on a browser
In order for the Greek to be correctly displayed in a browser you must ensure that the <HEAD> section of the source code contains the following tag:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type'>
or
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type'>
if you want to use Unicode encoding.
GREEK FONTS LINKS
How to view print and type in Greek for all platforms from Hellenic Resources Network
http://www.hri.org/fonts
Greek fonts
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Greek3.html
Adding Greek fonts
http://langintro.com/greek/common/howto.htm
Dealing with Greek Characters in Computers
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/greek-zvr.html
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POLYTONIC GREEK FONTS
Free Greek fonts by Magenta (Canonica is polytonic)
Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web
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