I've only followed this discussion partially because I'm not familiar with ancient Greek, but I noticed a few things.
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Proposal (I tested this, with the small alpha only, and it seems to > work): > -- Greek (modern and ancient) should use the common (international) > Compose file. > -- The international Compose file should have different definitions for > letters with simple tonos and letters with simple oxia. At present, > the Compose file has > <dead_acute> <Greek_alpha> : "ά" U03AC # GREEK SMALL LETTER> ALPHA > WITH TONOS > (and grep "GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA" Compose|grep -v AND|grep OXIA > gives nothing!) It should actually list the following two entries from Unicode data: 1F71;GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA;Ll;0;L;03AC;;;;N;;;1FBB;;1FBB 1FBB;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA;Lu;0;L;0386;;;;N;;;;1F71; I guess that's due to the following comments quoted from en_US.UTF-8/Compose (SUSE Linux 10.0): # Part 2 # Compose map for Korean Hangul(Choseongul) Conjoining Jamos automatically # generated from UnicodeData-2.0.14.txt at # ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/2.0-Update/UnicodeData-2.0.14.txt # by Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2002-10-17 This means the Compose data are quite outdated (Unicode 2.0!) and should be updated. Jungshik Shin, would you provide us with the script or program that you used to generate these entries automatically? That would be much appreciated. Actually, I would also like to equip my editor mined <http://towo.net/mined> with compose data automatically generated from Unicode data. I could do that myself but Jungshik Shin's contribution would help. Also, the following information would help: * What are the preferred keys that users would like to use to enter oxia, tonos, etc as accent prefix or combination keys? * Are any common keys (like quote mark, grave, acute) typically associated with Greek accents or is that rather random and subject to individual preference? * Are any common keyboard mappings in use that set some de facto standard here? What are their mappings? If someone would answer these questions in a generic way (i.e. not referring to X key names or mappings or even the more mysterious X keyboard configuration properties), I would be grateful. (I admit the questions are a little bit redundant, trying to achieve the same result under different aspects.) Thomas Wolff -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
