Re: identifying greek characters in an old book

From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 01:13:44 CST

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suzanne mccarthy wrote:

> I am just wondering what you meant by a codepoint for 'kai'.
> Does it have a special codepoint?

Yes. Kai is separately encoded as a character (U+03D7) because it is sometimes used even
in modern Greek in a manner similar to the Latin ampersand. [The Coptic equivalent is also
separately encoded, following the fairly recent disunification of the Greek and Coptic
scripts in Unicode.]

John Hudson

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