Typically Unicode fonts contain only some of the thousands of possible glyphs. Because every character in a Unicode font occupies a unique position, users of Unicode fonts can exchange files, even between platforms, without distorting characters. The Unicode Standards Committee developed a font template that assigns all of the world’s known characters (called glyphs) to specific positions on a single grid. Thus an em can become a mu, and an en, a nu (or vice versa). Keyboard mapping reassigns keys on a keyboard to other alphabet equivalents and simplifies the placement of diacritics. There is no need to change fonts to go from Roman to Greek and back since both characters sets are on a single font. When it is turned off, the black square once again becomes a gray icon and you get the usual Roman characters. When the Koine Greek keyboard is turned on, the grey icon appears as a black square and you get Greek (provided, of course, that you are using a Unicode font with a Greek character set).
You can also configure Keyman to toggle on and off with a key command of your choosing, such as altG.
You toggle the Greek keyboard on/off by clicking on the icon and selecting “Koine Greek” to turn it on and “no Keyman keyboard” to turn it off. When loaded, the Keyman software places an icon-an off-kilter, little gray square with a K in it-in the taskbar near the lower right corner of the computer screen. You can set Keyman to load automatically when your computer is turned on.
Designed to give scholars of Hellenistic Greek quick, intuitive access to the extended Greek character set, Koine Greek runs on Windows-based PCs and works with Unicode fonts that have the full range of Greek and extended (polytonic) Greek characters.ĭownload Koine Greek Character Map (PDF) Using the Koine Greek keyboard Koine Greek is a free Greek keyboard developed by Char Matejovsky, using Keyman keyboard mapping software.
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