---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Danilo Šegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30.1.2006 20:26 Subject: Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Fwd: Bug#350180: ttf-dejavu: cyrillic be does not look like cyrillic be To: Peter Černák <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: dejavu fonts mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Peter, I'll inline my response to the bug submitted by Stepan Golosunov, feel free to forward it to whereever you wish, including [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever the right address is ;) On Saturday at 3:30, Peter Černák wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stepan Golosunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 27.1.2006 21:27 > Subject: Bug#350180: ttf-dejavu: cyrillic be does not look like cyrillic be > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We already have independent report about this issue. Look through list archives to see the discussion. [snip] > CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE in DejaVu fonts looks very confusing, > especially in small-sized DejaVuSans. In Russian text I perceive it as a > foreign letter. I would say it's greek delta, not cyrillic be. As explained on this list, it's not Greek delta, it's Cyrillic be, just using Serbian typographical style; or rather, it's closer to it's _handwritten_ form, even in Russian. As such, it is recognisable everywhere, just not the preferred way to display it in most Cyrillic locales. As soon as someone volunteers to do it, it will probably be replaced with a "Russian style" Cyrillic be. Btw, does anyone know what style do Macedonian readers prefer? ;) Cheers, Danilo
