PHP Betacode Script

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The open source betacode.inc.php script provides functions for translating betacode into HTML unicode characters and back. The script is used on this website to make it easy to enter, and edit, polytonic Ancient Greek characters (for example: ἀ ἃ ή and ῷ, which are entered as a) a( h/ w=|) using a normal keyboard and a modern browser, irrespective of the computer or operating system being used.

A Koiné character generator has been set up, as a demonstration of the script, and as a general service to anyone needing to compose documents involving Koiné text. Comments on either application are invited. The script is freely available under the GPL license.

HTML and Unicode

As well as the fonts listed below, there is somewhere online (if you can find it) an excellent sans-serif Greek font called Galilee; it was designed for OHP use in teaching, and styled after Trebuchet.

Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts — an SIL project; regular and bold face

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=SILgrkuni

Gentium -- A typeface for the nations — Gentium, for printed work, is possibly the most attractive font of all for polytonic Greek. No boldface yet, but it's an SIL project, and free to download.

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium

Greek font to Unicode converter — by Sean Redmond, another web application similar to the Koiné character generator

http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/

PHP and Unicode — From RandomChaos; great introduction.

http://www.randomchaos.com/document.php?source=php_and_unicode

TLG Beta Code Summary — Resources for the ASCII text format used to markup biblical and other ancient texts.

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html

Tutorial: Display Koine Greek quickly and easily in most* web browsers — This is a tutorial by Sam Marsh that gives a few tips on bulk converting, and then displaying, Greek Unicode on your website.

http://www.sammarsh.net/?p=725

Unicode charts — Charts of Unicode Hex values mapped to characters including Greek, Greek Extended, and Combining Diacritical Marks. (PDF format)

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Unicode Classical Greek Inputter — A JavaScript browser application that performs a similar function to the Koiné character generator.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/letters_table_caretpos2.htm