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Aug 08 2007

Cannot write Greek Polytonic in Linux

For up to date instructions for Greek and Greek Polytonic see How to type Greek, Greek Polytonic in Linux. The following text is kept for historical purposes. Greek and Greek Polytonic now works in Linux, using the default Greek layout. General Update: If you have Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10 or a similarly new distribution, then …

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Jun 12 2006

Can you read Coptic?

Coptic is the most recent phase of ancient Egyptian. It is the direct descendant of the ancient language written in Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. The Coptic alphabet is a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving from demotic. As a living language of …

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Mar 11 2006

Greek Polytonic HOWTO

Dimitri Marinakis has written a HOWTO on Hellenic (Greek) Polytonic in free and open-source software, licensed by the GNU Free Documentation License. It gives a background in Ancient Greek and describes how to use Greek Polytonic (read and write) in your Linux system. Simossimos.info

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Jun 16 2005

Bug 167940: Add Greek Polytonic precomposed chars to gtk+/gtk/gtkimcontextsimple.c

Ακόμα δε μπορούμε να γράψουμε πολυτονικά ως έχει στο gtk+ 🙁 Simossimos.info

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Feb 24 2005

Γράψιμο ελληνικών μέσα από GNOME

Ενημέρωση 2010: Δείτε τις νεώτερες οδηγίες στο How to type Greek, Greek Polytonic in Linux. Το να γράψουμε τώρα ελληνικά σε Linux είναι ό,τι πιο εύκολο. Οι παρακάτω οδηγίες είναι για πολύ παλιά έκδοση του Linux και δεν τις συνιστούμε πια. Υπάρχουν διάφοροι τρόποι να γράψει κανείς ελληνικά στο X.org. Εδώ θα δούμε τον τρόπο …

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