Hi, I noticed the U+0251 (LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA a.k.a LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A) is going to be troublesome in Serif fonts. In Freefont Serif it looks like the U+0061 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A) from Serif Italic. The problem arises when trying to add U+0251 to the Italic font. U+0061 looks just like U+0251 should be. This is not only problematic for IPA but also for some African languages, see [1], [2] and [3]. Unicode will add its uppercase character: U+2C6D (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA), see [4].
What should we do? Should we change U+0061 in Serif Italic * so U+0251 can look like the glyph it should be, without having people mixing the two? There's another glyph that is problematic. In Freefont Sans, the U+026A (LATIN SMALL CAPITAL I) is just a reference to U+0131(LATIN LETTER SMALL DOTLESS I). This is problematic because IPA uses U+026A, possibly with diacritics. These accented U+026A will look exactly like accented U+0069 (LATIN LETTER SMALL I), since it looses its dot when accented. I proposed we simply add serif to U+026A, so people can differentiate between the the groups of accented glyphs. [1] http://about.museum/idn/african.latin.html [2] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=LatinWrittenOutNames [3] http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg00620.html [4] http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye --- http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo _______________________________________________ Freefont-bugs mailing list Freefont-bugs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freefont-bugs