Subject: Greek symbols

From: Vincent Broman <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Apr 1997 22:09:52 -0000

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Can anyone recognize and name characters 38 and 43 in the WinGreek font?
They appear among some archaic letters like digamma.
Number 43 might be some editor's mark like an obelus, I suppose.
Appended find pictures of the two mysterious characters.

I have almost finished creating a mapping between the WinGreek
font encoding and Unicode (which I will make public, and which
I may implement into the free "tcs" character set translator).

Vincent Broman, [email-masked]

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character 43
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From: "Jenee Woodard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:05:11 +0000

I forwarded your message to Sterling Bjorndahl, and here is his 
reply:

WinGreek Character 38 is a variety of koppa. See the example on p. 9
of Metzger's _Manuscripts of the Greek Bible_. And 43 is an
_asteriscus_ (asterisk), one of Origen's sigla for the Hexapla.
Again,  Metzger, p. 38 (ss. 22), and plate 15.

Sterling

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> I may implement into the free "tcs" character set translator).
Jenee Woodard * Jackson, Michigan * [email-masked]
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From: Vincent Broman <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Apr 1997 19:29:27 -0000

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Thanks for input.
I've put the Unicode encoding information for the
WinGreek v1.9 type 1 greek font at http://sd.znet.com/~broman/wingreek.txt
and included caveats and explanations.
Suggestions and corrections to me.

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