The representation of the tonos and oxia on Greek vowels has become an issue at Wikisource. For the letter alpha modern monotonic Greek uses U+03AC (decimal 940) for alpha with an acute accent or "tonos". Traditional, or polytonic Greek uses U+1F71 (decimal 8049) for alpha with an acute accent or "oxia". I understand that the simplification of Greek writing has been a matter of considerable controversy in the 20th century.

Our software now converts the 1F71 to the 03AC form. It would nevertheless be preferable not to conflate these forms. Wikisource will include both classical and modern Greek texts, and it would seem preferable to have the entire range of accents available for the classical texts when required.

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