Beta Code - Encoding - Greek Alphabet - Notes

Notes

  • The TLG Beta Code Manual uses upper-case ASCII letters to represent Greek letters. A variant (used by the Perseus Project) uses lower-case ASCII letters instead. In both cases, the unadorned ASCII letter represents a lower-case Greek letter, and an asterisk must be added to indicate an upper-case Greek letter.
  • In general, one encoding character S for Greek sigma is sufficient; it is interpreted as a final sigma at the end of words or when followed by punctuation, and as a medial sigma in other positions. In cases where this auto-disambiguation is not correct, the specific codes S1 and S2 are available.
  • The codes *S3 and S3 for lunate sigma are deprecated and do not occur in new texts; TLG regards the lunate sigma as a glyph variant of medial and final sigmas and unifies lunate sigma with these, using *S and S (or, if necessary, S1 or S2, as appropriate), respectively.

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