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How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Windows XP

Posted: May 5, 2004
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Polytonic Greek is not a language itself but rather a representation form of the Greek Language. It is named Polytonic due to the use of multiple (poly-) diacritic marks, as opposed to Monotonic that uses a single (mono-) diacritic mark.

In Windows, the Polytonic Greek support is a combination of a special Greek keyboard layout (Greek Polytonic) and a few fonts containing all the additional characters (diacritical and punctuation marks). This downloadable whitepaper outlines the steps you need to take to use Polytonic Greek from fonts to necessary keyboard layout.

Table of Contents:

  •  Chapter I - Greek Polytonic System Setup
  •  Chapter II - Installing the "Arial Unicode MS Font" in Office suites
  •  Chapter III - Greek Polytonic Keyboard States
  •  Chapter IV - Greek Polytonic Key Combinations

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