Typing Greek

  

Once you've got a Unicode font installed on your computer you can read other people's Greek. If you want to use it yourself this is where you find out how to type the lot on your computer. The letters themselves are easy. All in the usual places, plus the following special, typically Greek letters:

q w   y  
  θ     ω          ψ       
      h j
                 η     ς  
z x c    
  ζ     χ     ξ            

In some Unicode converters the funny letter produced when pressing the J key is final sigma. In the TypeGreek method it doesn't matter whether you press s or j, the moment you press another key the final sigma will automatically replace the normal sigma.

As for diacritics, what you've got to know is: First the vowel (or the ῥῶ), then the diacritic mark, according to the following table. The order in which you type diacritics in combination is irrelevant.  Note  that the macron doesn't work on the email page.

single diacritics
  ἁ   rough breathing   ( 
  ἀ   smooth breathing  )
  ά   acute  /
  ὰ   grave  \
  ᾶ   circumflex  =
  ϋ   diaeresis  +
  ᾱ  macron  <
no
combined diacritics
  ἅ   rough& acute   (/ 
  ἄ   smooth & acute  )/
  ἇ   rough & circumflex  (=
  ἆ   smooth & circumflex  )=
  ΰ   diaeresis acute  +/
no
subscript iota
 ᾳ   subscript iota    |
   ᾀ   subscript iota    |) 
 ᾆ   subscript iota    )=|