SuperGreek Test
This is a test page meant to show you how various characters will appear if you have the Greek font properly installed in your system.
The SuperGreek encoding includes the fonts Graeca, SuperGreek and SSuperGreek, formerly distributed for Macintosh by Linguist's Software. (You may need to change the encoding on this page to Western (Mac/MacRoman) to view it properly.)
Test characters
The following characters may or may not be displayed properly; you can check here whether your installed font deals well with them.
| Digamma |
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| Capital Digamma |
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| Lunate Sigma |
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| Capital Lunate Sigma |
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| Keraia | V
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| 'Lightning-bolt' Koppa |
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| Stigma |
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| Koppa |
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| Alternate Stigma |
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| Sampi |
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| Low keraia |
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| Capital Upsilon diaeresis | U >
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| Capital Iota diaeresis | I >
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| Rho with smooth breathing | rj
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| Capital alpha with iota adscript | A/
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| Capital alpha with acute | A v
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| Under-dot | a
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| Missing letter dot |
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HTML 3 (MSIE 3, Netscape 1-4)
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The beginning of the Iliad should look like this:
This is how your browser renders it in HTML 3:
1.1.1.
ILIADOS A
Mh'nin a[eide qea; Phlhi>avdew Acilh'o"
{2>}2 oujlomevnhn, h} muriv Acaioi'" a[lge e[qhke,
{2>}2 polla;" d ijfqivmou" yuca;" Ai>di proi?ayen
hJrwvwn, aujtou;" de; eJlwvria teu'ce kuvnessin
{2#14}2 oijwnoi'siv te pa'si, Dio;" d ejteleiveto boulhv,
ejx ou| dh; ta; prw'ta diasthvthn ejrivsante
{2#14}2 Atrei?dh" te a[nax ajndrw'n kai; di'o" Acilleuv".
Tiv" tavr sfwe qew'n e[ridi xunevhke mavcesqai @1
Lhtou'" kai; Dio;" uiJov": o} ga;r basilh'i> colwqei;"
HTML 4 & CCS (MSIE 4, 5, Opera, Netscape 6)
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This is how your browser renders the beginning of the Iliad in HTML 4:
1.1.1.
ILIADOS A
Mh'nin a[eide qea; Phlhi>avdew Acilh'o"
{2>}2 oujlomevnhn, h} muriv Acaioi'" a[lge e[qhke,
{2>}2 polla;" d ijfqivmou" yuca;" Ai>di proi?ayen
hJrwvwn, aujtou;" de; eJlwvria teu'ce kuvnessin
{2#14}2 oijwnoi'siv te pa'si, Dio;" d ejteleiveto boulhv,
ejx ou| dh; ta; prw'ta diasthvthn ejrivsante
{2>#14}2 Atrei?dh" te a[nax ajndrw'n kai; di'o" Acilleuv".
Tiv" tavr sfwe qew'n e[ridi xunevhke mavcesqai @1
Lhtou'" kai; Dio;" uiJov": o} ga;r basilh'i> colwqei;"
Created: 2000-11-30
Last Modified: 2001-8-2
Maintained by tlg@uci.edu