Re: Old Cyrillic Yest

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 <qsjn4ukr_at_gmail.com> 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.
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 12 2012 - 10:23:03 CST