Πιστιόλης Κωνσταντίνος wrote: > Την Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:14:16 +0100,ο(η) Jan Willem Stumpel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε/wrote:
>> My request for comment was, so far, only on the new 'font' section >> of the document, section 4.5. >> > > Ok, quite explanatory! Just one comment: ... Typographical fashions > in Greece have now changed, so this solution is right for modern > Greek also... It's not like a typographic fashion change; modern > greek may still use any glyph for 'tonos'. [..] I got the impression that typographical fashion in Greece has changed from http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_gkbkgd.html#oxia : It would be an exaggeration to say that the erstwhile dots and wedges have completely died out — especially as they have been given a new lease of life by font developers' sluggishness. However, the non-acute tonos seems to have become restricted to display type or otherwise marked circumstances; quality typography uses the acute. This suggested some (recent?) change in typographical fashion to me. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that the FreeSerif font now, in its very latest version (Debian package ttf-freefont_20060126-0.1_all.deb), displays alpha-oxia (0x3ac) the same as alpha-acute (0x1f7). So there is some progress on the font side. The direct result is that on the keyboard side, the need for a separate acute and tonos has become less "acute"! Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
