Koiné character generator

Betacode

  then cut-and-paste.  (John 1.1 is the default example.)

Unicode

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

HTML

<span class="greek">&#x1f18;&#x03bd; &#x1f00;&#x03c1;&#x03c7;&#x1fc7; &#x1f26;&#x03bd; &#x1f41; &#x03bb;&#x1f79;&#x03b3;&#x03bf;&#x03c2;, &#x03ba;&#x03b1;&#x1f76; &#x1f41; &#x03bb;&#x1f79;&#x03b3;&#x03bf;&#x03c2; &#x1f26;&#x03bd; &#x03c0;&#x03c1;&#x1f78;&#x03c2; &#x03c4;&#x1f78;&#x03bd; &#x03b8;&#x03b5;&#x1f79;&#x03bd;, &#x03ba;&#x03b1;&#x1f76; &#x03b8;&#x03b5;&#x1f78;&#x03c2; &#x1f26;&#x03bd; &#x1f41; &#x03bb;&#x1f79;&#x03b3;&#x03bf;&#x03c2;.</span>

Help

This script allows you to enter accented Koiné Greek (that is, polytonic Ancient Greek) text, using a normal keyboard and web browser. You can then cut-and-paste the Unicode characters, or their HTML equivalents, into other documents. A simplified form of betacode is used for indicating the accents that are to be applied to each character.

Characters Accents
a b g d e z h q i k l m n o p r s j t u f c y w a/ a\ a) a( i+ a= h| W)/| ' ? ;
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϊ ᾿ ; ·

More than one accent can be applied to any character; if a matching character cannot be found for a certain sequence of accents, it will be attempted repeatedly, dropping the final character each time, until a match is found.

Two things are necessary to use this script: (1) Your browser must be able to display Unicode characters, and (2) any font you use with these characters elsewhere (e.g. in a word processor) must contain Unicode characters. On recent Windows systems, the Tahoma font works well, though there are better choices. Font resources are linked from the following page:

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