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Originally Posted by yucca
Well, it should syntactically be body {font-family:"My_special_font", serif}. But there is no guarantee that the generic name serif maps to a font that contains the Greek characters you need, especially if the text is polytonic Greek. And you can enter the Greek characters as such (Sigil has no special tool for this, so you may need to use e.g. a Greek keyboard layout or use copy and paste), as named character references, or a numeric character references, as shown in the screenshot.
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I personally use this site to easily search for unicode characters (then I copy/paste them):
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...preview=entity
Or for the basic Greek characters I use Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters
I recently stumbled upon this incredible Wikipedia page for Greek letters with accents (look further down the page for organized tables of characters):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics
Takes a little while to copy/paste one by one, but if there are only a few that are needed, it is not that bad.
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Originally Posted by yucca
But the problem is: will e-book readers be able to display them?
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I did not have any luck getting these obscure Greek characters to display on my Nook (embedded font or no). I also heard it had zero luck displaying on the Nook App on Android (I assume because they do not have proper Unicode support?).
It read perfectly fine on ADE on the PC, Sigil, Mantano Reader (Android)... I assume because these have proper Unicode support.
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Originally Posted by yucca
That’s really a different question, and an interesting one. You might need to use an embedded font to make sure that Greek characters will show OK.
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Hmmm, perhaps someone with a little more embedded font experience might be able to help in my case.
I have attached the EPUB (no embedded font). All Greek words are marked with the CSS class "greek" to allow very easy font tweaking.
Would be great to figure out this Greek situation, would really be helpful for many books.
