If not, please follow the non-Unicode option (individual users may select they font from the user's settings). The Input in Greek menu presently offers 2 choices. Of these, we recommend:

• Beta code. (Beta code is the default setting.) or
• Transliteration with or without accents

Of the two, the safest option across browsers is Beta code, which only ever employs ASCII characters.

The following are the keyboard mappings of the various entry methods:

1. Transliteration

   All browsers; All fonts
   Accented Transliteration requires ability to enter standard Western European (French) diacritics: diaeresis, acute, grave, circumflex. If you wish to employ diacritics in accented transliteration, you should familiarize yourself with your operating system's conventions for entering diacritics.

   If you do not enter accents and breathings, use Roman characters with ^ as the macron for long vowels.)

   The transliteration switches automatically from unaccented to accented, depending on whether the user has entered a diacritic-sensititve search.

   Exceptionally, iota after a long vowel is interpreted as iota subscript only if the search is sensitive to iota subscripts:

   String entered	Diacritic sensitivity	Converted to
   tro^ia	Insensitive	TRWIA
   trôia	Insensitive	TRWIA
   tro=ia	Accents Only	TRWIA
   tro=ia	Iota Subscripts Only	TRW|A
   tro=ia	All diacritics	TRW|A

2. Unicode

   Typing Unicode Greek on MacOSX:
   

   MacOSX as of Jaguar (system 10.2), comes with a Monotonic Greek Unicode keyboard installed (Apple Menu --> System Preferences --> Intternational --> Input Menu --> Greek). For Polytonic Keyboards, users will need to consult third-party tools; Donald Mastronarde has created a GreekKeys-compatible keyboard as part of the American Philological Association-sponsored GreekKeys Unicode release.

   Typing Unicode Greek on Windows

   On Windows, you will need to add a Greek polytonic Unicode keyboard to your preferences. (Start Menu --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Keyboard --> Input Locales --> Add --> Greek Polytonic). The keyboard mapping used in based on Greek typewriters: Microsoft provides a keyboard map. (Select Greek Polytonic; you will need Java enabled on your browser. Note that Unicode uses modern Greek names for diacritics: oxia: acute, varia: grave, perispomeni: circumflex, psili: smooth breathing, dasia: rough breathing, ypogegrammeni: iota subscript, dialytika: diaeresis.)

   Outside Windows 2000, or as an alternative to the Microsoft keyboard, you can also use a program like Tavultesoft Keyman to create your own custom Unicode keyboard. There are three keyboards available for Keyman:

   • David Perry's
   • Manuel Lopez's
   • Lukas Pietsch's

   Windows: Internet Explorer

   Internet Explorer accepts Greek polytonic text as Unicode input as of version 5.5.

   To set the font for Greek Unicode text to be displayed in entry fields in Internet Explorer for earlier versions (5.0), you will need to select the appropriate Unicode font as its Greek display font (Tools --> Internet Options --> General --> Fonts --> Language Script: Greek --> Web page font: [Unicode font of your choosing].

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