Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2002-09-16 11:25 UTC:
> The Adobe Helvetica fonts shipped with XFree86 4.2 provide a lot of
> vietnamese glyphs, however, are missing all the ones with the "hook" tone
> marker; that makes them unsuitable for vietnamese; but then why providing
> the other vietnamese-only letters ?
>
> IMHO it must be an error or a mistake that the hook-accent ones are missing.
> 
> Now my question is, can this be fixed ?
> Who should be contacted for that ?

I made these fonts that you are probabaly talking about.

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-75dpi100dpi.tar.gz

The fonts contain the precomposed glyphs that I found sufficiently easy
to put together. If enough users bug me with real user needs, I'll look
at adding more glyphs. It was all done with a huge Perl script I wrote
that adds bitmaps from existing glyphs together and adjusts the metrics
accordingly.

I guess I could align a closing single quotation mark to get a suitable
hook, when I find some time and people show interest. First I want to
finish extending the TARGET-3 fonts in

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz

to Unicode 3.2 however. A bit of help would be appreciated.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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