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In Greek, letters like Beta do not get a combining mark. I do not know which Coptic letters are permitted to have combining marks. It is evident that the fonts need special editing so that the combining marks are centered well on the letters. You can do the same trick even with english, as a way to add combining marks. The combining mark will automatically attach to the letter that is position on its left. Which shows the acceptable combining marks for Coptic and their Unicode codepoint value.įor the combining mark to work, you must place the cursor just ahead of the coptic letter (alfa). To add combining marks, follow the list shown at In you need to hit the spacebar to get the character shown, as a step 3. I think in newer versions of Linux a capable Coptic font will be autoselected. Clicking on any one of the font names, like 'mathsymbols', will show you all the characters for that particular font. In Gedit or you need to select a suitable font. How can I get special characters, like Greek symbols, in my graphical text strings First browse the font tables to find the one that contains the character(s) you want. Of course, the font needs to support Coptic so that the character is shown.

In GTK+ applications on Linux you can type Coptic using the codepoint.

Other operating systems should have a similar procedure. I know how to type these letters in Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) when using the GNOME graphical environment. The OpenDocument file ( 2.0+) that was used to generate the screenshot is at