Polytonic Greek keyboard - suggestion for improvement

[AdamKeyUK]

I suggest MS add lunate sigma (U+03f2) to the Polytonic Greek keyboard. It has an earlier history (at least 4thC BCE than the forms of sigma (final and other) that MS currently includes (earliest 1stC CE, but probably only really from 8thC CE). Lunate sigma is less common than other forms now - but that is just because its rarity is perpetuated by its absence in MS keyboard language. It has probably also been perpetuated by Western (Roman Catholic Medieval) Europeans wishing to differentiate their scholarship from the Greek orthography of the Eastern Orthodox Church - which used lunate sigma b

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