section_path: Computer encodings
section_name: Computer encodings
paragraph_text: Computer encodings
  
  For computer usage, a variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947.
  
  The two principal ones still used today are ISO/IEC 8859-7 and Unicode. ISO 8859-7 supports only the monotonic orthography; Unicode supports both the monotonic and polytonic orthographies.