Ancient Greek Language Support
for LibreOffice / OpenOffice

SuperGreek Encoding

As far as I understand, SuperGreek was an Ancient Greek Keyboard Layout for old Mac OS. The layout also came with a font, for rendering purposes. Text written in SuperGreek is called SuperGreek Encoded.

AncientGreek implementation of SuperGreek Encoding is based on the SuperGreek font (v. 4.0, 17-01-1996)

SuperGreek font ^

Here is the font his implementation is based on, which you have to download in case

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

SuperGreek ZIP file

AncientGreek SuperGreek 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

• SuperGreekToUnicode Macro

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

• UnicodeToSuperGreek Macro

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

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 SuperGreek is performed.

SuperGreek implementation ^

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