On 28/09/2004 19:36, Joe Becker (Unicode) wrote:
Eric,
U+04A6/U+04A7 *is* the Abkhazian character, this has been stated since Unicode 1.0.
The glyph form of these hooks/descenders has always shown great variability as Peter
says. In Soviet-era books available when this was first encoded, Cyrillic extensions
were often handwritten in, and handwritten forms do not necessarily reflect
typography. And the typographical preference may have changed since then, it will be
interesting to see what recent samples folks can come up with.
I understand that many of the modifiers were in fact generally written
on typewriters by overstriking letters with commas etc. That explains
the variant positioning.
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Peter Kirk
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