2010/9/19 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > > Message du 19/09/10 20:35 > > De : "Apostolos Syropoulos" <[email protected]> > > A : "Unicode Mailing List" <[email protected]> > > Copie à : [email protected] > > Objet : Re: Missing old Greek ligature/letter "omicron+upsilon above" > > > > 2010/9/19 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Clearly there does seem to be missing a Greek letter, which should > > > behave exactly like the Latin letter. I can't say > > > if this is a contamination of the Greek script by the Latin script > > > (the book itself is in French), or if finally the > > > ligature was also used in Greek books. I think that such famous > > > authors were knowing Greek enough to have seen the > > > ligature used in pure Greek alone. > > > > > > > All I can tell that ου is a diphthong and since it is very common people > > have been using the form you are mentioning. The following shows that > > it was something used in Greek text alone: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_print_1566_Aristotle.png > > Ok but I'm concerned by the fact that the existing Latin 'ou' > ligature/letter U+0222/U+0223 cannot be used safely for Greek: > - it has the wrong script property >
That is correct. > - when combined with a Greek circumflex (canonically equivalent with > the latin tilde), this circumflex won't be able to adopt the curved > circumflex form (inversed breve) that is also commonly found in many > Greek font styles and handwritten Greek styles, but normally NOT > suitable for the tilde over a Latin letter) ; > Well some years ago, me and a friend of mine created a font that based on the original printing of the Philokalia books. The font is freely available from http://openfontlibrary.org/files/asyropoulos/244 Now the original text incuded all sorts of accented ου letters/ligatures. > - it won't combine correctly with Greek spirits > No it does. > - there's a difference between the diphtong "omicron+upsilon" and the > pair of Greek vowels (that's why I think it's not really a ligature > Sorry but I do not understand what you mean here. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, GREECE
