Fwd: Old Bulgarian cyrillics - yet unencoded characters?

From: Andreas Stötzner (as@signographie.de)
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 06:22:35 CST

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    I quote from a statement made by Prof. Sebastian Kempgen (Bamberg):

    > Von: Sebastian Kempgen <sebastian.kempgen@uni-bamberg.de>
    > Datum: 1. April 2009 13:54:57 MESZ
    > An: Andreas Stötzner <as@signographie.de>
    > Betreff: Re: Fwd: Old Bulgarian cyrillics - yet unencoded characters?
    >
    > Dear Colleague,
    >
    > Thank you for circulating the interesting scan! The book was printed
    > when standard Bulgarian Orthography wasn't yet normalized, and when
    > not every printing house probably had a complete Cyrillic character
    > set at its disposal.
    >
    > BLUE letter: definitely simply a variation of the standard form of
    > U+046D.
    > GREEN letter: variation of U+0465 (not a usual variant, more an ad hoc
    > solution)
    > Red letters: variations of U+042E and 0344E phonetically; obviously,
    > the typesetter did not have the correct letters; seems also to be a
    > mixture of influences between Latin and Cyrillic-writing Slavic
    > countries: the same words would be written with "jy" (Cyrillic) or
    > "ju" in Latin (Croatian for example).
    > The dotted "i" thus is a substitute for the "j" (both Cyrillic and
    > Latin).
    > At the same time, the fact that both letters are connected, seems like
    > an influence of Russian Cyrillic where one has in U+042E a connected
    > form.
    >
    > All in all, this seems to me to be an ad hoc solution used by the
    > typesetters. They do not seem to contrast with the standard glyphs in
    > a functional way. For me, these glyphs are so idiosyncratic, that I
    > would not even consider them for implementation as standard OpenType
    > alternate shapes in my fonts.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Sebastian Kempgen
    > http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/AKSL.Schrift.htm
    > --
    >
    > ***********************************************************
    > * Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
    > * University of Bamberg, Chair of Slavic Linguistics
    > * 96045 Bamberg/Germany
    > * Tel. +49 - 951 - 863 2107, Fax: +49 - 951 - 863 2108
    > * http://www.uni-bamberg.de/slavling
    > ***********************************************************
    >
    >

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