Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>Interesting that the French decided how to write Greek
>letters. How would we react if the Greek told us how
>to write our own letters ?
>
>But this is'nt yet very clear to me. As I said:
>
>- my manuals for ancient Greek use both forms: the one
>with a "descender" as initial beta, the one without a
>descender as medial beta
>
>- my (French) manual for (modern) Greek only mentions
>the initial form of beta (the one with a "descender")
>for every beta, be it initial or in the middle of a
>word
>
>- the Greek book (printed in Greece) I mentioned, only
>uses the "medial" form (without descender), wherever
>in the word
>
>- when I look at Greek pages on the Web, I can only
>see the initial form (with descender), but I don't
>know how Greek people visualize it on their own
>system. If I try to insert special characters in a
>Word document, I also can see only the initial form:
>shall I suppose that the font is customized for French
>people ?
>
>
>
I think that the one with a 'descender' is the form used in Modern
Greek(when not capital).

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