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How does Unicode Greek work in an html document?

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How does Unicode Greek work in an html document?

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Modern Windows browsers allow Unicode input within html forms in documents that are encoded as Unicode (utf-8 encoding). This capability is found, for instance, at the TLG web site on their Unicode input search page. When making an html document containing Unicode Greek, the charset should be set to “utf-8” and the Greek may be entered in a couple of different ways. The least cumbersome is to use an application that allows Unicode input: in this way you can type visible Greek into your file. The more cumbersome way is to use either decimal or hexadecimal code as shown here as an image (so it won’t execute): which gives when executed by the browser decimal code ἄγγελος, ἀγγέλου hexadecimal code ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός In the above lines you should see the Greek for “aggelos, aggelou” from the decimal code (that is, the decimal equivalent of the Unicode hex code) and “anhr, andros” from the hexadecimal code; some older browsers will fail for some or all of the characters. If you examine the source

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