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The Coptic alphabet

It is quite interesting to see that the Coptic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, as it was used to write the language spoken in Egypt, from around 300BC to 1300AD. Coptic now has its own Unicode block. Nowdays, Coptic is used at religious ceremonies by Coptic Christians in Egypt. Simossimos.info

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Ανατομία ενός γράμματος

Με ενδιαφέρον είδα μια συζήτηση (τίτλος upgrade σε ubuntu 5.10 = προβλήματα με τα ελληνικά) στη λίστα συνδρομητών Linux-greek-users για το θέμα της υποστήριξης γραφής ελληνικών σε ελεύθερο λογισμικό. Ωστόσο, μετά από λίγα γράμματα, στάλθηκε Simossimos.info

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Greek layout code in Xorg

The current X.org source uses gr instead of el for the Greek layout. The change took place 19 months ago, according to http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xlibs/xkbdesc/symbols/gr?view=log in an attempt to introduce consistency in the layout names. There is currently a discussion at Simossimos.info

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Αλφαβητικά αριθμημένες λίστες

α. Πορτοκάλι β. Μήλο γ. Λεμόνι δ. Ροδάκινο ε. Μανταρίνι στ. Καρπούζι ζ. Πεπόνι Έχετε δεις τέτοιες λίστες; (εννοώ την αρίθμηση με γράμματα αντί αριθμούς). Μόλις πρόσφατα προστέθηκε υποστήριξη στο GNOME στο πρόγραμμα μετατροπής και εμφάνισης της τεκμηρίωσης. Υπάρχει σχεδιαζόμενη υποστήριξη σε CSS3 που όμως για τα ελληνικά έχει προβλήματα, μιας και δεν περιλαμβάνει τα …

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Installing Greek spelling and hyphenation in OpenOffice.org 2.0

Update:These instructions do not apply for OpenOffice.org 3.0. For OpenOffice.org 3.0, you need to install the Greek Dictionary, Thesaurus and Hyphenation Extension. End of Update You can install Greek spelling and hyphenation (soon thesaurus) in OpenOffice.org following the procedure below. We would like to remind that you can install this Greek support in either the …

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Greek lessons

This session was part of the bazaar events and I offered to teach basic Greek. I was a bit late to get there and as soon as I arrived, I grabbed some biscuits and waited at my teaching area. Soon afterwards, participants started to gather and we went on to the Greek Alphabet. I started …

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