> phi 03D5
> phi1 03C6
>
> The problem with this is that the preferred 'text' form for the
> lower Greek alphabet is the glyph shown in Unicode 3.0 Book @
> U+03C6, which is the glyph found in most fonts having the Greek
> alphabet, including TNR.
Thus my suggestion to introduce an additional code point `GREEK
ALTERNATIVE SYMBOL PHI'...
> That glyph should not be rightly identified with a glyphname of an
> alternate glyph (phi1). The fact that Adobe's Symbol font glyph
> naming was inherently inconsistent with Unicode was known since
> before Unicode 2.0, but it was deemed irrelevant, since Symbol
> encoding was not any official standard. Our fonts contain both
> glyphs (and additional alternates as well) and are consistent with
> Unicode 3.0.
Sigh. Is it only me who sees a problem here? <sarcasm> I get the
impression that most persons answering in this thread think ``Horray,
my font is compliant to Unicode 3.0, and everything else is not
important.'' </sarcasm>
What about the many PS printers which have Adobe's symbol font built
in? I'm really interested in any constructive idea how to solve the
problem in a realistic way. Buying new fonts just for this purpose is
not realistic IMHO.
Werner
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