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

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> Interesting remark. I checked in an edition of the
> Little Prince (O mikros prigkipas), and it seems that
> you're right: in "sto basilia", the initial "b" is has
> the same form as in the middle of a word. Yet when I
> was learning some ancient Greek, we always wrote the
> "b" of "basileus" a different way, more or less like:
That is a specifically French typographical
convention in writing ancient (not modern) Greek: see
http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/letters.html#symbol
section 3.2.

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