Unicode Polytonic Greek for the Web (version 0.9.7)

Unicode Polytonic Greek for the Web

References and Resources for Unicode: An Annotated Bibliography

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References and Resources for Unicode: An Annotated Bibliography

References

NOTE: Eventually, this will be fleshed out into a complete annotated bibliography. For now, it only includes what I've had time to add, and much of it is not yet annotated. Note too that a few of the resources listed below were written with an awareness of draft versions of this site; while they may be sources for the information on these pages, these pages might also be sources for the information provided in the resources. None of the resources below have endorsed this site in any way; nor does the listing of a resource on this page ever imply an endorsement of the resource so linked.

In the three or four years that I've been working on this book, a lot of new sites promoting Unicode for polytonic Greek have sprung up. I suspect that this is the only site which is genuinely platform agnostic, trying to deal with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux, and is one of the few sites oriented to the publication of texts in polytonic Greek (rather than the mere reading of others' published work).

If anyone can provide me with solid information on other operating systems, in particular BSD, Plan 9, AtheOS, and Windows CE/PocketPC, with screenshots, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd also be interested in seeing screen shots of things that can be done with BeOS beyond my bare experiments.

I have a number of sources for this site. The most important published resources (on the web) have been

Jeffrey Rusten's review of the Unicode font Palatino Linotype:
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/classics/Faculty/Rusten/unicode/review.htm
This font was released in Windows 2000, and is also available in Windows XP. Eventually I'll be adding my own comments on this font, which is mildly disappointing, and has a few errors, but is an aesthetically pleasing piece of typography. It is my understanding from Microsoft that the font is being worked on to provide more complete support and to correct the handful of errors reported.
Also of importance is his GreekKeys FAQ, including
How can I start using Unicode Greek (for Windows only) right now?
Sean Redmond's Greek Font Converter:
http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/convert.php3
The Perseus Project's Font Information Page:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/fonthelp.html
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae's Font Information Page:
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.html
The Suda On Line's Font Information Page:
http://www.stoa.org/sol/greek.shtml
The Unicode Consortium's Web Site:
http://www.unicode.org/
Greek Character Chart (Basic Monotonic) - http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U0370.html
Greek Extended Character Chart - http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U1F00.html
Unicode Consortium Useful Resources Page
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/resources.html
The Microsoft Typography Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/
Apple Fonts Page:
http://fonts.apple.com/typography/
Apple Technote on Installable Keyboards in OS X:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2056.html
UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux (Marcus Kuhn)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
Marcus Kuhn is one of the developers of XFree86's font support, and is a strong proponent of Unicode.
Unicode fonts and tools for X11, Marcus Kuhn
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
Fonts that Support Unicode: Alan Wood's Unicode Resources (Greek Fonts)
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html#greek
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers - Greek Extended [U+1F00 - U+1FFF (7936-8191)] (Alan Wood)
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/greek_extended.html
Everson Typography
Home page of an active Unicode participant/supporter, typographer, and minority languages activist, Michael Everson, whom classicists should thank for his dedicated work to get the Linear B and Cypriot syllabaries into Unicode, and his promotion of Cuneiform, Egyptian, Gothic, Old Italic, Phoenician, and a host of other scripts (basically, if it's a dead language, you owe him some thanks).
http://www.evertype.com/
Multilingual Unicode Web Page Development (Andrew Cunningham, Information Systems Librarian, Maribyrnong Library Services)
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~andjc/papers/cn99.html
Bruce G. Robertson's Proposal to add Attic acrophonic numerals to Unicode
http://smaug.java.utoronto.ca/~brucerob/Greek/akrophonics/
The comp.fonts FAQ (v 2.1.5., 1996.8.14)
http://www.nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/index.html
Diogenes is a Perl-based GPLed software package written by Peter Heslin that can scan the TLG and PHI disks and output HTML with Unicode and other encodings (Getting the Unicode to work will take some effort, of course).

A lot of the information on this page is empirical, however, the result of an extensive series of testing with the systems discussed. My current systems (August 2001) are a Windows ME box that can also boot into the personal edition of BeOS or through a hardware configuration change (i.e., opening the box and swapping the IDE ribbon) can run Windows XP RC1, a Red Hat Linux 7.0 box, and an iBook running Mac OS9.1 and OS X 10.0, with additional access to an NT 4 server, a Windows 2000 server.

Applications for Windows

Son of WinGreek (http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/SoWG.html)
Tavultesoft Keyman
David Perry's Fonts for Scholars Keyman Keyboards
Antioch
OpenOffice
SCUnipad

Applications for Macintosh

Foreign Languages on the Mac http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tg3907/mlingos9.html?mtbrand=AOL_US#unicode
Unicode for Carbon http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/text/UnicodeUtilities/unicodeutil.html
Pure Mac: Font Utilities (a list of font utilities for the Macintosh) http://www.eskimo.com/~pristine/font.html

Applications for Linux

Yudit Home Page (http://www.yudit.org/)

Applications for Other Platforms

BeOS NetPositive Documentation (http://www.be.com/documentation/User's%20Guide/03_network/Network07_NetPositive.html)

Additional Resources

Here are some additional resources which I have not yet had time to categorize.

Indoeuropean Homepage (http://www.indo-european.org/)
Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages (W3C Working Draft) (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-unicode-xml-20001215/)
Unicode, Ancient Languages, and the World Wide Web (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/jg/unicode/herodot.htm)
UTF-8 Character Encodings (http://www.talisman.org/utf8.html)
Vincent Broman's documentation in terms of Unicode of the Wingreek v1.9 Greek font encoding.

Another Greek fonts for computers page, by Michael Appleby at Yale http://www.yale.edu/classics/GreekFonts.htm
And another

Collections of Fonts

Greek Font Society Fonts (http://www.arts.cornell.edu/classics/Faculty/Rusten/greekkeys/GFS.htm)
Greek and Coptic Language Fonts, Luc Devroye (http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/greek.html)
Clearly U font (http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu/cu-greek.html)
GNU Unifont (http://www.czyborra.com/unifont/)
Multilingual Unicode TrueType Fonts in the Internet [sic] (http://www.ccss.de/slovo/unifonts.htm)

Books

The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0. Reading, MA: Addision-Wesley, 2000.
Includes CD-ROM.
Prinicipal authors: Joan Aliprand, Julie Allen, Joe Becker, Mark Davis, Michael Everson, Asmus Freytag, John Jenkins, Mike Ksar, Rick McGowan, Lisa Moore, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler
Tony Graham, Unicode: A Primer.
Learning XML, Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly and Associates, 2001.
XML in a Nutshell, Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly and Associates, 2001.
Apple Computer, Learning Cocoa, Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly and Associates, 2001.
Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels (http://www.oakknoll.com/pressrel/macrak.html)
Aldus Manutias and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century [not yet read]

If you have any other questions these pages don't answer, feel free to write me at unicodegreek@methymna.com. I can't promise that I'll answer, but I will try. But please be patient: I'm now averaging over 50 messages a day from various sources and projects, and sometimes it takes me a week or two to respond.