Peter Kirk scripsit:
> It has the disadvantage of making these fonts useless for Turkish and > Azeri, and more fundamentally so than fonts which have <f,i> ligatures > with no visible dot.
As soon as someone commissions a Gaelic font from me which needs dotted lower-case i for Turkish or Azeri, I shall let you know.
And of course the fonts would not be acceptable to > most users of English and other Latin script languages. So any such font > will be restricted to a small niche market.
Gaelic fonts without dots on the i's are perfectly acceptable for English and other Latin-script languages. Unfortunately, the makers of American Uncial (curse it) decided it needed a dot, and made the dot a fat acute mark into the bargain.
Inevitably so. It's a mistake to think that because Unicode unifies character sets, that it also requires or even prefers "unified" fonts. In anything but the most unusual circumstances, using Gaelic fonts for anything but Irish (and very marginally Scottish Gaelic and Old English) is a typographical travesty, akin to using Naskh-style Arabic fonts for Persian.
There's nothing wrong with using Gaelic fonts for English. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
