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Old 07-21-2016, 02:36 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
If you mean Ά, that would be a tonos or an oxia, depending on whether it's modern or ancient Greek*, the HTML entity you want has to be done as a Unicode one for tonos: Ά or for oxia: Ά.

It looks like the first alpha in the screenshot you provide also has one of the breathing marks, so maybe you also want Ἀ, which is Ἀ for "Greek Capital Letter A with Psili" or Ἁ Ἁ "With Dasia".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics

ETA: this link on Computing with Accents, Symbols & Foreign Scripts might also be useful.
Thanks for the advice and the references.

For the breathing mark I cheated and used a ’

For the accent I realised soon after I posted that a far simpler method would be to use Á

Neither method is elegant, but I don't think anyone will be able to tell the difference.
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