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Post 1

Lemon Blossom (aka Athena Albatross)

Do you know how to put Greek letters in H2G2 conversations, articles, and/or usernames. I have reason to think you might.


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Post 2

Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged

The summary of the situation as I can recall it is:

smiley - star Conversations: Typing greek characters directly (from a greek keyboard, or from a Character Map program) may work, but it may also not work. I've put a few at the end of this post just to test things.

smiley - star Articles: You should use entities, eg Σ. See A266951 for a full list.

smiley - star Nicknames: I'm not sure right now, I think you can use the characters directly, but I'm testing right now.

As you can guess it's been a while since I've done this, and as you can also guess the system doesn't support non-English languages very well at all. Hopefully something the BBC can see fit to fix to become a bit more inclusive.

spelugx - ππ


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Post 3

Lemon Blossom (aka Athena Albatross)

Thanks.


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