Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

From: Lukas Pietsch (pietsch@mail.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 08:27:48 EST

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Patrick Rourke wrote:
>I imagine that the capitals with
> diaresis are there for text that's in all capitals but is accented.

One modification: I have the impression that capitals with diaresis are
also quite widely used, and may indeed be considered obligatory, with
normal all-uppercased text that is not otherwise accented. This goes for
both polytonic and monotonic Greek.

Lukas Pietsch

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