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I finally downloaded the latest version of Celestia, and I must say I do like the changes. The only thing I forgot to backup was my version of celestia.cfg which had extra star names added into it … oh well, no great loss. While looking at the new celestia.cfg I noticed that some stars had strange strings attached to them, and pretty quickly I realised that the strings were for Greek letters. I tried guessing my way through the alpha-beta, but after realising that \u03b14 did not equal xi, I decided to make a list.
Think of it as my first help file.
Tack it onto the end of your celestia.cfg file for easy reference.
Note that there is no \u03c2 .. I think that’s because the sigma letter is drawn differently if its at the end of a word <shrugs>.

# \u03b1 alpha
# \u03b2 beta
# \u03b3 gamma
# \u03b4 delta
# \u03b5 epsilon
# \u03b6 zeta
# \u03b7 eta
# \u03b8 theta
# \u03b9 iota
# \u03ba kappa
# \u03bb lambda
# \u03bc mu
# \u03bd nu
# \u03be xi
# \u03bf omicron
# \u03c0 pi
# \u03c1 rho
# \u03c3 sigma
# \u03c4 tau
# \u03c5 upsilon
# \u03c6 phi
# \u03c7 chi
# \u03c8 psi
# \u03c9 omega
#
# Adam K.


ps. oops, got some of my Bs and Cs mixed up... all fixed now

Thank you for your translation, Adam K.

And it goes on to other letters, as

?? \u00e1
?

I'd like to have Zeta1 & Zeta2 Reticuli labeled, and I've tried a couple of different ways of specifying \u03b6 in celestia.cfg. If I add "\u03b6 Reticuli", then I get Zeta1 Reticuli labeled. I don't know how to specify Zeta2 Reticuli, however. Anybody know how this is done? Thanks!

Okay - I just figured this out:

"\u03b6 Reticuli"
"ZET2 Reticuli"

The first uses the escape sequence to get the zeta character. The second form works as well (in celestia.cfg). I was just making this harder than it need be.

If it is all Greek to you, then what must i say ? hello everyone