Text segmentation algorithms need to be aware of this issue, as the kinds of text units delimited by a semicolon or a middle dot in Greek text will typically differ from those in Latin text. Those are the characters that will appear in any normalized form of Unicode text, even when used in Greek text as Greek punctuation. In these cases, as for other canonical singletons, the preferred form is the character that the canonical singletons are mapped to, namely U+003B and U+00B7 respectively.
Thus, U+037E " " GREEK QUESTION MARK is canonically equivalent to U+003B " " SEMICOLON, and U+0387 " Some commonly used Greek punctuation marks are encoded in the Greek and Coptic block, but are canonical equivalents to generic punctuation marks encoded in the C0 Controls and Basic Latin block, because they are indistinguishable in shape. What keyboards are you using? Where did you get them? And are there things you wish they did better?Ĭoncerning the Greek question mark, the latest Unicode standard ( )Ĭanonical Equivalence Issues for Greek Punctuation. To that end, I would be grateful if Greek users could share, on the SBL Greek forum, information about the keyboards they already use, and whether there are limitations to these that SBL might usefully address.
#Greek question mark coding drivers#
I am currently trying to determine whether there is a need for SBL to produce Greek keyboard drivers for download along with the new font, or whether users will be satisfied with the Unicode input methods they already use.
The computerisation of classical and koine Greek is better established, other fonts already exist supporting these forms of polytonic Greek, and many classical and Biblical scholars are already working with Unicode encoded text.
#Greek question mark coding manual#
When we released the SBL Hebrew font, it was obvious that both an extensive manual and dedicated keyboard layouts and drivers would be needed: many issues in the computerisation Biblical Hebrew were only recently settled, during the very development of the SBL Hebrew font. The first release version of the SBL Greek font should be available within the next few days (announcement to follow), and I am giving some thought to documentation and keyboarding issues.