Archilochos Help Page

Obtaining a Unicode Font to display Ancient Greek accented characters.

Most modern computers running Windows XP have the font 'Arial Unicode MS' available. If you can make this font available to Windows you should be able to see the Greek characters correctly. If you do not have this font you need to download a Greek font on to your computer. Fortunately there is a free font from Ralph Hancock available on the link below. This font is much less legible than the Arial font which should always be used in preference.

The following instructions apply to Windows 98 ME. If you have a different version some of the instructions will apply slightly differently.

First select a folder to download the font to; e.g. 'c:\Temp'. Click on the link below. When you are prompted to 'open' or 'save' the file, click on 'save' and download the font to the selected folder

Now go to 'Start':'Settings':'Control panel':'Fonts'. When you have the 'Fonts' window open click on 'File':'New Font'. Scroll through the folder list to select c:\Temp (or the folder you chose). In the 'list of fonts' you will now see 'Vusillus Old Face Italic (True Type)' Click on this font to select it (the background turns blue). Make sure the 'copy fonts to Fonts folder box is ticked, then press 'OK'. You should now find that the font is present in the fonts list. Return to the main website, refresh the Greek text page and the text should now be in Greek.