representing accented Greek

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Re: representing accented Greek

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Anthony Appleyard wrote:My PC is a few years old and has Windows 98. I would have to write any Greek in the Roman alphabet. Greek letters with accents are liable to show as question marks. What conventions are there for representing accents etc while staying in the 95 basic ASCII characters?
Betacode. It was originally devised for the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae), but is still widely used in online communication, especially email. Most people here will be able to read and produce it, too.

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