From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 18:45:00 EDT
At 15:37 -0700 2003-04-11, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Michael wrote:
>
>> I'd say that the character which needs adding is something so that
>> African languages can be written normally with both roman and italic
>> forms.
>
>No, U+0192 is that character, and already has the correct
>properties for it. The challenge for the type designer of
>fonts for African languages is to design an f-with-hook that
>looks right in roman fonts and a italic glyph for f-with-hook
>that looks right in italic fonts.
You're right, it's the florin that's the problem.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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