Joe, > > • The older glyphs for the quote characters (i.e., ', ", ", ') are > much nicer for a screen font. It would be nice to be able to get > the old glyphs somehow. > It seems to me that yours is an aesthetic judgement about the shapes of the glyphs. On second look, I agree. My "curly" quotes look out of place in this face.
The standard specifies that the glyphs should be distinct from certain other glyphs, but their shape is only suggested. In previous releases, the quote-left U2018 was just wrong. Since I think of these as "curly" quotes, I tried to make them curly, and distinct from "primes" (U2032+). But the standard doesn't say the quotes have to be distinct from the primes. I think cases where it would matter, would be very rare, and questionable. So basically, I put the shapes back as they were, like the comma in Mono, and just made sure the directions and senses of the quotes matched the standard. To appear in the next release.