RE: Sorting in Ancient Greek

> I believe utf-8 should work fine[1]  and you just need 
> appropriate fonts 
> [2]. I'm not sure whether ISO-8859-7 supports ancient polytonic greek.

I think the question was about language codes, not character encodings.

Michael Kay


> 
> [1] http://www.stoa.org/unicode/
> [2] 
> http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/gr
> eek.html#polytonic
> 
> hth,
> 
> Manos
> 
> Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> >>Thank you for your reply David. We had thought of using 
> >>translate, but as
> >>there is a 'lang' attribute we were wondering how it can be 
> >>used. Could
> >>anyone tell us? Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > You can set it to the ISO language code for ancient Greek 
> provided that (a)
> > such a language code exists, and (b) your XSLT processor 
> supports it. I
> > suspect that neither of these conditions is true, unfortunately.
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > 
> > 
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