UTF-8 Greek and Coptic — HTML Unicode UTF-8 Charset

HTML Unicode UTF-8 is the easiest way to write special characters online (especially if you use a CMS like WordPress or do WP Theme Development). Some characters like α or Α have an ‘entity’ attached to them. As such you can render them by writing α or Α respectively.

In your HTML code using the character entity, you will write something like

<p>The Greek letter lowercase <em>alpha</em> is written like $alpha;.</p>

<p>The Greek letter uppercase <em>alpha</em> is written like $Alpha;.</p>

However, not all special characters have an HTML Entity, and so you will use decimal (dec) or hexadecimal (hex) reference to achieve the same result.

For example, the decimal code for α is ‘945’ so you will type α and the hexadecimal (hex) code for α is ’03B1′ so you will type &#x03B1; in your document that us using HTML document to render those characters.

HTML Unicode UTF-8 For Greek and Coptic List

Resources

1. “UTF-8 Greek and Coptic”. W3Schools. <https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_greek.asp>. Accessed 14 Aug 2024.