How is GreekKeys Unicode version 2 (in the GreekKeys 2005 release) different from the 1.x versions that were formerly available for free for testing?
Version 2 includes more keyboard assignments than the 1.x versions (including for some of the metrical symbols), includes more localizations for European keyboards, includes fuller documentation, and comes with GreekKeys Symbol input (for a full range of metrical symbols and other useful characters approved for Unicode 4.1). Version two also follows the recommendation of the Unicode Technical Committee that the vowels with tonos (in the Greek block) be used for both modern and ancient Greek and that use of the corresponding vowels with oxia in the Greek Extended block be discontinued. So, for example, whereas alpha with acute was input as U+1f71 in v. 1.x, from version 2.0 onward alpha and acute is input as U+03ac. In addition, where version 1.x dealt with some combinations by inputting the decomposed code points (such as alpha with macron + combining smooth breathing + combining acute accent), version 2 inputs a PUA (Private Use Area) code point for a precomposed character. That is, v
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