Greek Characters not recognized in PDF?

Hello, looking for some help from other Zotero users with a bit more experience. If this isn't the correct place to post, please let me know etc.

I'm a grad student in philosophy, Zotero is both where I keep all my references AND where I read & annotate PDFs of books and articles (so that highlights and annotations sync across my Macbook / iPad / phone).

Sometimes, I'll be working with texts that quote the original Greek in the Greek alphabet, but when I highlight something with Greek characters, they're replaced with some combination of Latin characters and punctuation marks. Is there any way to have Zotero recognize both alphabets so that the text on the side is correct? (I know I can manually edit this, but I am looking to save time or avoid an error where I forget this, etc.)

Any help is appreciated!

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  • Have you opened this in a different PDF reader and see if it works there? Zotero's PDF reader generally supports annotating & extracting Greek (and any other unicode) text. This might be an encoding or even OCR issue.
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