Indeed there are more than one styles in the representation of PERISPOMENH for Greek Polytonic. Which shall we choose?
Greek students are taught Ancient Greek (in Greek Polytonic) in high school and senior high school (ages 12 to 18). The school books for high school are freely available as PDF files from http://pi-schools.sch.gr/gymnasio/ (search for «Αρχαία» to find all relevant books) For example, http://pi-schools.sch.gr/gymnasio/arxaia_b/math/math_1-20.pdf (ages 13-14). You can also download the entire dictionary, students currently use: http://files.ubuntu-gr.org/forum/pros/dictionaries/%20%ce%b1%cf%81%cf%87%ce%b1%ce%af%cf%89%ce%bd%20%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8e%ce%bd.pdf All Greek students go through high school, as it is part of the compulsory education, and they end up seeing this type of Greek Polytonic. In addition, the default installation of Ubuntu with the Greek locale (language support) allows users to type Greek Polytonic (we made it part of the default keyboard layout). Thus, students can write their school essays on Ubuntu with Ubuntu font, in Greek Polytonic. Therefore, we, as Ubuntu-gr community, believe that we should go for the style 'tilde' for PERISPOMENI, since it is used in Greek education, and specifically during all (compulsory) secondary education. A screen shot of the aforementioned dictionary http://ubuntuone.com/p/yPp/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Greece, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646069 Title: Style: Greek: document rationale for design of PERISPOMENI accent (tilde vs. inverted breve) Status in Ubuntu Font Family: Confirmed Bug description: Rendered in 24pt Regular Sample Glyphs: ᾶ Description: (I capitalise PERISPOMENI, as it is a convention in Unicode. I am not shouting :-). (I mentioned the following issue to Bruno already at http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/it%E2%80%99s-all-about-greek/comment-page-1/#comment-3515 so I am just creating the report for completeness). From the Greek Extended Unicode block - http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf letters that have PERISPOMENI (tilde character over the main letter) are shown to have an inverted breve (upside down cup). The inverted breve is found in some fonts, however it is not common at all in Greece and Greek. The sample font at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf shows correctly PERISPOMENI (tilde) All Greek fonts such as those from the Greek Font Society (http://greekfontsociety.gr/) use tilde for PERISPOMENI. You can try out the GFS fonts in Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install ttf-gfs-artemisia ttf-gfs-baskerville ttf-gfs- bodoni-classic ttf-gfs-complutum ttf-gfs-didot ttf-gfs-didot-classic ttf-gfs-gazis ttf-gfs-neohellenic ttf-gfs-olga ttf-gfs-porson ttf-gfs- solomos ttf-gfs-theokritos See also screenshots at http://simos.info/blog/archives/1144 (they compare between DejaVu Sans and Ubuntu Font Beta). UA String: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100716 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.7 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/646069/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux.sch.gr More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
