[Corpora-List] Greek characters in Unix (summary)

[Stamatia Spiliopoulou]

I would like to thank the following people who provided me with information
and suggestions about using Greek characters in a Unix environment:

Dr. Michael Betsch (email: Michael.Betsch at uni-tuebingen.de )
Aristides Vagelatos (email: vagelat at cti.gr )
Patrice Bellot (email: patrice.bellot at lia.univ-avignon.fr)
Dr. Edward Wornar (email: edie at serbski-institut.de)
Mari Olsen (email: molsen at microsoft.com)
Jonathan Robie (email: jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com)
Tito Orlandi (email: "directory posta elettronica"
<email at rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it>)

What I found particularly relevant to my research was the following:

1. A helpful site concerning Greek resources (Aristides Vagelatos)
    http://www.hri.org/fonts/

2. Technical info for a system on X11 Display (Dr. Michael Betsch):

>I assume that your system uses a so-called X11 Display (standard on UNIX).
>In order to display something, this program needs suitable fonts (there
>are fonts that contain Latin as well as Greek characters); these might not
>yet have been installed. Check the output of the command:
                        xlsfonts | fgrep iso8859-7
>this command will output the "font names" of the Latin-Greek fonts
>available on your display. If you don't see any output from this command,
>you need to have some fonts installed.
>If there are fonts available, you probably need to tell your application
>to use them for display. How this is done varies from one application to
>another. Several applications share a common way to tell them:
>use the parameter "-fn 'a font name as output by xfontsel'" on the command
>line. You will probably have to put the font name in quotes.

>Some applications read a file ".Xdefaults" in your home directory and get
>their preferences from there. Which options you may set from there and how
>you have to format them will be application specific; such preferences
often look like:

Xkwic*Font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
Xkwic*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
Xkwic*stdfont: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-2
Xkwic*MatchFont: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-2
Xkwic*TargetFont: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-2
>(these set the fonts the corpus query interface Xkwic uses). Look into
>your corpus software documentation.

>NB: the Latin-Greek fonts replace the combinations of Latin letters with
>diacritics by Greek letters, so you may only see either French accents or
>Greek letters.
>Sincerely, Michael Betsch

Best regards,

Stamatia-Irene Spiliopoulou

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Stamatia-Irene Spiliopoulou
MPhil (Research) in Corpus Linguistics
University of Birmingham, UK
Centre for Corpus Linguistics
email: spiliosi at hhs.bham.ac.uk
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