I don’t know almost anything about Greek language but if I am not mistaken Koine Greek has a small bunch of slightly different letters or a small bunch of slightly different vocalization marks then original Greek.
I don’t know if there is any encoding for Koine Greek letters and actually what is the best way to know if there is.
See Character encoding - Wikipedia. If you have a computer file with text in it then, in order to use it, you must know the encoding. It might be simple ASCII but it is something. HTML pages must use characters (bytes) that correspond to the encoding specified in the HTML, such as <meta charset="utf-8" />. Or the encoding specified must be appropriate for the bytes. And has been discussed and you have said, characters often consist of multiple bytes.
Perhaps I am using the word encoding improperly. This stuff can be confusing. I worked with the IBM word processor that existed back before the IBM PC existed. Back then they used the terms fonts and character sets. It is easy to get the terms confused.
For here, I am saying you need to first determine what the data looks like. It might be UTF-8. It might be 16-bit Unicode. It might be something else. It is useless discussing any possibility other than the one that you actually need to work with. A long discussion might cause someone best able to help you to give up before getting to the important part.
If you have a computer file with text in it then, in order to use it, you must know the encoding
I think you meant, the operating system needs to know the encoding.
The operating system cannot know if you do not tell it. You are asking for a tool. Use of a computer tool requires the proper input. You need to know the format of the data!
And this discussion can go on forever. Very long discussions can exist from many vague comments.
What do you mean “if you do not tell it”? That’s a vague comment because if I paste some text in a language I don’t know, I don’t necessarily choose encoding for it; I check if a program render it correctly automatically or not and if not then I try to change encoding.
Tell us the specifics about the data you are asking for help with.
Koine Greek characters.
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