From: Pim Blokland (pblokland@planet.nl)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 11:33:37 EDT
António Martins-Tuválkin schreef:
[quoting Radovan Garabik]
>> In fact, the apostrophe form is used because there is a lack of
>> convenient space to put carons over "tall" letters d,t,l, whereas
>> there is no problem with n,e,r.
Funny you should bring this subject back up. I never stopped
wondering about why these letters suffer from lack of sufficient
space, while the uppercase versions of these letters apparently do
not! And how about the k with caron (U+01D9), which even the Unicode
code chart shows with a "proper" caron instead of the apostrophe
version.
And if you look at the ď (U+010F) in monospaced fonts, the "lack of
space" issue is a laugh; it's even the reverse: while this character
would have looked nice as a d with a ˇ above it, cramming a d and a
' in the space normally reserved for the d looks awful.
However, having said all this, I'm not sure it's a Unicode issue.
What is to prevent font makers from creating fonts with glyphs that
look like ˇ for every caron? The Unicode Consortium doesn't force
the appearance of glyphs, only the font makers do.
All that Unicode can do is to decompose characters like U+010F as
0064 030C (which is what it does now). Beyond that, Unicode has no
control over what font makers make their fonts look like.
Pim Blokland
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