Ancient Greek Language Support
for LibreOffice / OpenOffice

GreekKeys Encoding

The so called GreekKeys encoding is actually an implementation of the following fonts included in Traditional GreekKeys package, by Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association (APA): Athenian, SymbolAthenian, Attika, Classical, Bosporos, Kadmos, Xanthippe, Sparta, Salamis, etc. Text written in GreekKeys is called GreekKeys Encoded.

AncientGreek implementation of GreekKeys Encoding is based on the Athenian font.

GreekKeys fonts ^

Most of the fonts previously mentioned are hard to find. Fortunately, the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) still provides the Athenian font (for free), which you have to download in case

• You want to be able to read GreekKeys encoded text without converting it to Unicode
• You want to publish GreekKeys encoded documents or web pages

Athenian ZIP file

This ZIP file comes from the athenwin.exe program, which has been made freely available by the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association.

AncientGreek GreekKeys conversion Macros ^

I suggest saving your work before running either of these macros on a document (no text selection), so that reverting (Menu File / Reload) to it is possible, as Undoing may not be of much help, since a letter by letter substitution will take place resulting in way too many undo steps.

If any of these macros are executed without selecting any text, a warning message similar to the one shown in the following picture will appear.

Warning message on Windows 8.1

• GreekKeysToUnicode Macro

This macro converts text written in GreekKeys to Unicode (normal text that can be edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice).

• UnicodeToGreekKeys Macro

This macro converts text written in Unicode (normal text edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice) to GreekKeys.

Using fullwidth characters ^

If the document (or selection) contains ASCII characters (English text), they will automatically be converted to the "fullwidth / halfwidth" characters, when text conversion from Unicode to GreekKeys is performed.

GreekKeys implementation ^

AncientGreek fully implements the encoding as shown in the following table.

Note: ASCII control characters are displayed in bold green color, using the terms defined at The Unicode Consortium Specification v. 7, followed by their Unicode code.