Telling font designers how to do their job (even if it's within Unicode's purview which I doubt) by adding new codepoints is a novel idea to say the least.
Leo On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:32 AM, QSJN 4 UKR <[email protected]> wrote: > Old Cyrillic letter YEST (Є) has two variants: broad (also called > Yakornoye Yest) and narrow. They are saved in modern Ukrainian script > (only), where U+0404/0454 UKRAINIAN IE is used for the inherited BROAD > YEST and the modern, rectangle form of U+0415/0453 IE for the NARROW > YEST. Unicode Standard has a remark to use U+0404 for the Old Cyrillic > YEST, but it is unclear, how to distinguish the BROAD YEST and the > NARROW YEST. Unfortunately some fonts use U+0404/0454 for any YEST and > U+0415/0435 for the modern rectangle IE, some old-style fonts use only > the old YEST but with codepoint U+0415/0435 and do not use U+0404/0454 > at all, some use U+0404/0454 for the BROAD YEST and U+0415/0435 for > the NARROW YEST... Please regulate it! > Unicode Standard has some codepoins for other broad Cyrillic letters: > U+A64C/A64D BROAD OMEGA, U+047A/047B ROUND OMEGA (misnomer, it is > broad o). Adding new codepoints for the BROAD YEST does not solve the > problem: as i said, UKRAINIAN IE and BROAD YEST is the same letter in > fact. Adding new codepoints for the NARROW YEST is bad idea too, > existing texts use U+0404/0454 for NARROW YEST more often than for > BROAD YEST (just since broad form is rare:). So we need as many as 4 > new codepoints in U+A6xx block for CYRILLIC CAPITAL and SMALL LETTER > BROAD and NARROW YEST. That way we shall be able to use both > discernible letters of the Old Cyrillic, and we shall not mix them > with the modern Ukrainian letters nor each other. > >
