Unicode Greek: Text Critical and Little Used Characters

I had to do a bunch of typing in Greek today that included text critical symbols, and I found myself needing to keep checking a reference chart I had composed for myself. Here are some helps for you:

• First, check Rodney Decker's NTResources Unicode page and especially note the section on Unicode Input in Word. (It is more easily read if you use the PDF version he provides.)
• You will especially want to note that entering these characters is most easily done with the "ToggleCharacterCode" switch which involves hitting ALT+X right after entering the character code. For example, in MSWord, to get the Majority Text symbol, use the Cardo font, type 1D510 and then immediately hit ALT+X to get the Fraktur M.
  
• This will pretty much only work with the Cardo Unicode font. (Logos has a LibronixApparatusFont that includes the characters, but it is not a Unicode font, and it is not free for distribution. SBLGreek will also be released someday, but in the beta version, even it does not have all the characters.)
• I regularly use the BabelMap software he mentions.

There are a few characters that Decker does not include in his listing:

• For the family symbol, use 0192. (You can also use an italic f in TimesNewRoman.)
• Digamma: 03DD
• Sampi: 03E1 or 03E0
• Stigma: 03DB or 03DA
• Alternate Beta: 03D0
• Alternate Theta: 03D1
• Alternate Capital Upsilon: 03D2
• Koppa: 03D8
• Aleph = Sinaiticus: 2135 (use this in left-to-right text; in Hebrew text use 05D0)
• Broken Vertical Line: 00A6
• Dagger: 2020
• Dotted Cross: 205C

Hope this helps...