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Summary of valid characters in ASCII mapping

The ASCII mapping of Attic Geek includes 34 valid characters, composed of 23 alphabetic and punctuation characters used in the Attic writing system, 5 tokenizing white space characters, and 6 editorial characters.

Alphabetic and punctuation characters used in the Attic writing system:

Character ASCII representation Valid mapping?
alpha (long or short vowel)Atrue
betaBtrue
gammaGtrue
deltaDtrue
short epsilon, long eta, or diphthong eiEtrue
zetaZtrue
thetaQtrue
iota (long or short vowel)Itrue
kappaKtrue
lamdaLtrue
muMtrue
nuNtrue
short omicron, long omega, or diphthong ouOtrue
piPtrue
rhoRtrue
sigmaStrue
tauTtrue
upsilon (long or short vowel)Utrue
phiFtrue
chiXtrue
aspirate (rough breathing)Htrue
major break.true
secondary break:true

Tokenizing white space characters:

Tokenizing character Code point (decimal) Valid character?
Space32true
Tab9true
Line feed10true
Form feed12true
Carriage return13true

Editorial characters:

Editorial disambiguation Code point (decimal) Valid character?
Long vowel marker95true
Short vowel marker94true
Circumflex61true
Acute47true
Grave92true
Elision39true