GreekTranscoder 2 is now available and supports BibleWorks

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GreekTranscoder 2 is now available and supports BibleWorks

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# GreekTranscoder 2
Copyright © 2005–2026 David-Artur Daix
<https://www.greektranscoder.org>

## Version 2.0.2, released 2026.02.02

GreekTranscoder for Microsoft Word is a program which converts polytonic Greek characters written using one text encoding into another one. Its primary goal is to allow the conversion of documents using older fonts and legacy encodings into Unicode fonts. However, it also allows converting text between legacy encodings as well as from Unicode into those older and often obsolete formats. More importantly today, GreekTranscoder fully supports Unicode and lets you decide which options you wish to apply to your Unicode text.

GreekTranscoder 2 is now available. It is an important upgrade which offers many improvements and some new features. In particular, the program restores full-document conversion, including footnotes, endnotes, footers, headers, etc. It also adds support for two legacy encodings: BibleWorks and Titus Greek. And it is fully compatible with the Unicode NFC standard.

### Legacy encodings

GreekTranscoder 2 supports the following legacy encodings:

* Beta Code
* BibleWorks
* GreekKeys
* Ismini
* LaserGreek
* Paulina Greek
* SGreek
* SPIonic
* SuperGreek
* Titus Greek
* Vilnius University
* WinGreek/Son of WinGreek

### Unicode

When dealing with Unicode, GreekTranscoder 2 lets you choose between composed or composing characters and, regarding Unicode code points which should be “deprecated” and thus “canonized” (or “normalized”) according to the Unicode Consortium, you can either conform your text to the NFC standard for composed characters or to the TLG usage for composing characters, or keep on using scholarly forms (the program’s default).

In other words, a Unicode text can be converted into Unicode itself with different conversion settings, resulting in four distinct Unicode modes.

| Mode | Best for |
|---------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Composed Scholarly | Academic work, print publications (default) |
| Composed NFC | Web pages, digital archives |
| Composing Scholarly | Text processing (lemmatization, TEI, etc.) |
| Composing TLG | TLG corpus compatibility |

You can test the current conformity of your Unicode texts containing ancient Greek using the Unicode Checker tool now available at:

<https://www.greektranscoder.org/unicode-checker.html>

### System requirements

GreekTranscoder 2 is distributed as a Word Macro-enabled template. There are two versions of the program:

* One, simply called GreekTranscoder 2, is compatible with both Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Word for macOS, but relies on the default interface designed for Windows users.
* The other, GreekTranscoder 2 for macOS, only works on macOS and relies on a native macOS application to provide the user with a modern and improved user interface.

On Windows, GreekTranscoder 2 requires Microsoft Word 2010 or later, and Windows XP SP3 or later. GreekTranscoder 2 has been tested successfully with Microsoft Word 2024 (and Office 365) and Windows 11.

On macOS, GreekTranscoder 2 requires Microsoft Word 2016 or later, and OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later. GreekTranscoder 2 has been tested successfully with Microsoft Word 2024 (and Office 365) and macOS Tahoe 26.

The program can be downloaded from <https://www.greektranscoder.org>.

## Licence: GPL 3

GreekTranscoder is free, open-source software distributed under the GPL 3 licence.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GreekTranscoder. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Contact

David-Artur Daix
<mailto:david-artur.daix@ens.psl.eu>
Département des Sciences de l’Antiquité
École normale supérieure – PSL
45 rue d’Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05
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