Displaying Greek characters in Web browsers (2024)

The following characters are utf-8 encoded Greek: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, nu, pi, degree (of temperature):
α, β, γ, δ, Δ, ν, π, °.

The charactersonly appear as greek within a browser if:

• the server (in this case Apache 2.0.49) has the line in thehttpd.conf file commented out:
  #AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
• or this variable is set to
  AddDefaultCharset utf-8
• or the file has the suffix utf8 added to its name on the server.

These solutions may well be server specific.For discussion of this point, seehttp://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Sep/0176.html

These characters are created using entities such as: α,β,γ,δ,Δ,ν,π, ° and appear as
α, β, γ, δ, Δ, ν, π, °
For a complete list of entities,see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html. A morefriendly tabulation can be found here. Browser tests to be found here.