>In the Bett book, I am running into a number of short Greek >expressions (in his discussion of translation issues.) I can >tag it with , and I can transliterate the letters >recognizably (using the SYMBOL font equivalencies) but I don't >know how to handle all the diacritical marks. How should we be >doing this? There are a couple of options -- a Greek font or Unicode. One good Greek font is SIL Galatia, which can be downloaded from www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/ . It's freeware, available for PCs and Macs. Skip Gaeda has written a program to convert fonts to Unicode; eventually we'll add the data needed to translate this font to Unicode as well. If you are using an ascii text editor, the Greek font doesn't work so well, since your text editor will likely not display it. So, you may have to go with Unicode escapes. You'd write something like α for a lower case alpha. The table below shows you the unicode representation of the Greek and Extended Greek character sets. http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U0370.html http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U1F00.html Note that Greek characters do not yet display well unless you are running Windows 95/98/NT, IE 4 or later, and have a suitable font installed. Skip Gaede says that the only suitable font he knows of for displaying all of the glyphs is Palatino Linotype. "One place you can get this is as part of the WNT 2000 beta software. I have successfully translated and displayed the Greek Unicode under WNT 4.0 and W95 using IE4.0."