On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 01:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Robert Herzog wrote on 1999-08-24 07:45 UTC:
> > So please swap the glyph images of U+03C6 and U+03D5 in the Unicode standard
>
> I made the same suggestion a week ago, and Asmus Freytag
> <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> replied privately that Unicode 3.0 will indeed
> swap the example glyphs for the above two characters (just an editorial
> change, no change of character name or semantics), as most font
> designers competent in Greek typography have already done anyway.
Excellent!
This means that it's now up to the font producers to implement this
editorial change in their Unicode fonts (e.g. Arial Unicode MS and
Lucida Sans Unicode).
If Microsoft/Monotype added the open theta at U+03D1 and the closed phi
at U+03D5 to the Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman fonts (regular,
italic, bold, bold italic), I'd be happy! :) Maybe for Windows 2000?
Remains the (re)introduction of the named entity GREEK PHI SYMBOL
into the HTML4 specification and (sorry Kenneth) the change of
the following lines in the MAPPINGS/VENDORS/ADOBE/symbol.txt file:
03C6 66 # GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI # phi
03B3 67 # GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA # gamma
03B7 68 # GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA # eta
03B9 69 # GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA # iota
03D5 6A # GREEK PHI SYMBOL # phi1
to
03D5 66 # GREEK PHI SYMBOL # phi1
03B3 67 # GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA # gamma
03B7 68 # GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA # eta
03B9 69 # GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA # iota
03C6 6A # GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI # phi
(I am not sure about the last column, PostScript character name.)
The same applies to MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/SYMBOL.TXT.
Sorry again Kenneth,
Robert
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Robert Herzog
LHC division, CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
email: Robert.Herzog@cern.ch, tel: +41 22 76 79583
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