GREEK LANGUAGE IN A PC - Ïñßóôå !

Internet -use | ISO-8859-7 | Greek language
Wie schreibe und lese ich griechische Texte?

Writing or even showing Greek text in a Finnish PC (The heading should look like: Oriste !) demands a little work. You can write single alphabets with the Symbol -font which is included in every Windows, but in order to produce and read larger Greek texts Greek fonts have to be installed.

Most of the Western fonts have their Greek substitutes - also Arial Greek, Verdana Greek, Courier Greek, Times New Roman Greek and so on. Usually the most common fonts are enough, but if you want to write in Greek you have to temporarily change your keyboard settings into Greek ones from the International settings in Windows' Control Panel. You can then change your keyboard settings from an icon in the tray bar next to the clock or by using ALT+SHIFT.

There is an excellent introduction to the subject in the address: http://www.hri.org/fonts/.. It may be a good idea to print the instructions as after one wrong answer your Windows may be totally in Greek and then even the pulldowns will look rather odd.

Greek keyboard settings and a Finnish keyboard is a combination, which is at first impossible to use without a keyboard chart. Not only the alphabets but also all special characters appear under a different key than it seems to.

Windows 2000 is dramatically better than any previous version as now you can also change the primary language without re-installing the whole Windows. Primary language is used also inside the applications and it is often needed to change in order to see the fonts right. If you see "gibberish" somewhere inside an application (such as your html-editor), then changing the language will probably help. Primary language setting is in the Control Panel's International settings and the new setting is available after a reboot.