first is "Greek and Coptic" (U+0370 to U+03FF). This block is based on ISO 8859-7 and is sufficient to write Modern Greek. There are also some archaic letters and Greek-based technical symbols. This block also supports the Coptic alphabet. Formerly, most Coptic letters shared codepoints with similar-looking Greek letters; but in many scholarly works, both scripts occur, with quite different letter shapes, so as of Unicode 4.1, Coptic and Greek were disunified. Those Coptic letters with no Greek equivalents still remain in this block (U+03E2 to U+03EF). To write polytonic Greek, one may use combining diacritical marks or the precomposed characters in the "Greek Extended" block (U+1F00 to U+1FFF). Combining and letter-free diacritics Combining and spacing (letter-free) diacritical marks pertaining to Greek language: Encodings with a subset of the Greek alphabet IBM code pages 437, 860, 861, 862, 863, and 865 contain the letters ΓΘΣΦΩαδεπστφ (plus β as an alternative interpretation for ß). See also Greek Font Society Greek ligatures Palamedes Romanization of Greek Notes References Bibliography [Greek translation of Greek: a history of the language and its speakers, London 1997] – selections from the Gospels in Macedonian. External links Greek and Coptic character list in Unicode Unicode collation charts—including Greek and Coptic letters, sorted by shape Examples of Greek handwriting Unicode FAQ – Greek Language and Script alphabetic test for Greek Unicode range (Alan Wood) numeric test for Greek Unicode range Classical Greek keyboard, a browser-based tool Collection of free fonts: greekfontsociety.gr