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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: [Greek] PERISPOMENI accent should look like tilde, not inverted breve

While hunting around for the background on this, I found:

  http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2004-June/030424.html

which gives a reasonable overview; in short, yes, there are two variants of drawing the perispomeni accent; either as a variable tilde, or as a invert breve. The determining glyph is '῀' (U+1FCO) which is used as a component for the rest.