Both Windows and Mac operating systems ship with a Greek Polytonic keyboard suitable for biblical and classical Greek.
Even though learning to switch to and use keyboard layouts for other languages takes a little bit of time to learn, the benefits of Unicode more than make up for this small initial investment of time and effort. This makes cross-platform text transfers and searches possible, because texts can be encoded with the characters in which they are written. So, an ayin both displays as an ayin and is encoded that way. Additionally, the computer understands the characters to be the ones that the screen displays. If one wants to use a different font for aesthetic (or other) reasons, one can change the font just like one would do with English. Likewise if the font is not installed, the computer simply defaults to its normal Unicode font. If a document is typed using one Unicode font, it will also be viewable using another Unicode font. Unicode seeks to allow for transfer of encoded documents between platforms and independent of fonts. However, the computer understands these characters as "b" and "(." Thus, when the document is transferred to a computer that does not have that specific font installed, the computer displays those characters. So, with SPEzra for example, pushing "b" displays a bet, and "(" displays an ayin. With older, non-Unicode fonts, character glyphs were simply mapped over Roman characters.
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