Questions tagged [greek]
For questions about typing/displaying Greek language or single letters from the Greek alphabet.
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Gimp showing submenus in Greek characters
After I installed the Gimp on my machine running Windows 10 Enterprise, submenus such as the 'tool options' are shown with Greek characters (as far as I can tell the words are English):
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How can I type rough breathing marks in Classical Greek using the Windows 11 Greek Polytonic keyboard?
I'm learning to use the Greek Polytonic keyboard in Windows 11 to type Classical Greek.
I can successfully type the following characters (using α as an example): ᾶ, ἀ, ἄ, ἂ, ά, ά, ἆ, ᾱ. For example, ἄ ...
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Autohotkey bug. Workaround?
In windows 10, I switch between a Greek Polytonic keyboard and a normal English QWERTY keyboard. I have an autohotkey script which swaps the left control key with capslock.
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Advanced greek typing
I often use Greek letters in my LaTeX documents. To avoid unreadable source files with \alpha, \phi, etc., I use Unicode and Greek letters directly. This is easy to configure with commands like
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How can type letter "kappa" in Microsoft word 2010 with this font?
it sure looks weird but I am trying to type a specific type of kappa in my article.
If I use the kappa available in "Equation" and "symbols" in "Insert" tab it looks exactly the same as small letter "...
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Fastest way to type greek letters like α or β?
I am working on a computer with only English keyboard, I have no admin rights to change the language settings in Windows, but I need to insert Greek letters in a text editor and other typing programs. ...
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MySQL csv excel greek characters
I developed an application using Bottle web framework and Python, to import some data into MySQL database. Most of the data where in Greek characters. On my application side, i didn't any further ...
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individual greek letters in chart legend that comes from a formula
I'm creating a Weibull plot in Excel 2010. Each line on the chart needs a legend of this form:
my 1st data [n=250, b=2.401] { where "b" should really be a lowercase Greek beta }
my 2nd line [n=...
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Can iconv convert the 'symbol' encoding?
I need to convert some files in greek that are encoded to be used with 'Symbol' font to Unicode. Can I use iconv for this? And if so, what is the name of encoding that is used in 'Symbol'?
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Change my terminal's character set in Ubuntu
I would like to process with perl some files in Greek in which the character encoding is Greek (ISO-8859-7) but my terminal doesn't support such an encoding. Can I add it somehow?
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Preserving Greek letters on my PC
How would convert this long table of vocabulary (one column of greek then one of english) in this document into one excel spreadsheet where the Greek characters are preserved? Whenever I try to copy-...
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How do I add ancient Greek accents in Ubuntu?
I am taking a course in ancient Greek, and there are various accents that go above the vowels. I want to be able to type these on Ubuntu.
For example, if I hit ;, then a (while in the modern Greek ...
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How do I input Greek characters in Ubuntu?
I'm taking a course in Greek, and would like to be able to store notes and such on my laptop.
I'm using Gnome, but I also use a flash card program called "Mnemosyne" that is written in Qt, if that ...
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