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::::::::There is a reliable source for upper- and lowercase stigma: they are both in Unicode (U+03DB is the small stigma, and U+03DA is the capital). Opoudjis states they were present in earlier encodings as well; but apparently casing stigmas are no longer something common, if they ever were. —[[Usor:Mycēs|Mucius Tever]] 04:32, 16 Februarii 2010 (UTC)
:::::::::I am honestly doubtful whether the fact that Evershed or somebody has persuaded Unicode to encode an uppercase form of the st ligature is notable, given that an uppercase form was never used (so far as I know) and can hardly have a use in the future. Still, since you both favour it, I'll add the illustration to the page! <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 12:57, 16 Februarii 2010 (UTC)
::::::::::Well, there's nothing to say they were never used; Opoudjis ''does'' believe it was a mistake to encode, but not because it was unused; merely because it's a ligature, which should be outside the scope of Unicode. (Clearly the existence in prior encodings must have carried some weight there.) At any rate, there's nothing to say it was never used; it's the number six, for crying out loud! :) so don't just take my word for it. I don't have the best Greek google-fu, but here's at least one example I found with a stigma in a capital-letters context: [http://books.google.com/books?id=vPBEAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%20%CE%95%22&lr=&as_brr=3&pg=PA517#v=onepage&q=%22%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%20%CE%95%22&f=false] — Notice the previous chapter is ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ Ε. So either that is a capital stigma in the subsequent chapter heading, or it isn't. It does look kind of small, but that might be an issue with the typographer lacking the second case, similar to [http://books.google.com/books?id=-gdTgIW-7IMC&lpg=PA171&dq=%22greek%20numerals%22&lr=&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=%22greek%20numerals%22&f=false this example] where, although they have a capital and a lower-case stigma, the typographer seems to have lacked the lower-case sampi, and qoppa altogether. (The poorly-outfitted typography hypothesis seems to be borne out by the header on the subsequent page, where not only is the stigma still small in stature, it's ''the same size'' as it is in the chapter heading—even though the rest of the letters are considerably larger.) Actually, [http://books.google.com/books?id=8a7UAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%82%22&lr=&as_brr=3&pg=RA3-PA1224#v=onepage&q=%22%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%82%22&f=false here] is an even better example, with an unambiguously capital stigma. —[[Usor:Mycēs|Mucius Tever]] 23:52, 16 Februarii 2010 (UTC)
:::::::For the letter J (for which Jot is the German name) I have preferred an image giving both uppercase and lowercase forms.
:::::::The various incarnations of [[Eta]] are dealt with at that page, but the image you supply will be more use when we have the [[Spiritus asper]] page. Watch this space. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 19:24, 15 Februarii 2010 (UTC)
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