> Virtually all fonts I know of use the pre-3.0 glyph representations.
> Sigh. Any suggestion how to fix this mess? [...]
>
> IMHO, the decision to flip the glyph shapes was a shot into the leg.
What about this:
The UTC should undo the glyph swapping and introduce a new character
called U+03F7 GREEK ALTERNATIVE PHI SYMBOL. Then we would have
U+03C6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (any glyph shape)
U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL (curly glyph)
U+03F7 GREEK ALTERNATIVE PHI SYMBOL (stroked glyph)
and no problem with backwards compatibility.
[But I assume that this solution has been already suggested and
apparently rejected in favor of the current one.]
Werner
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