From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sun Sep 26 2004 - 11:51:59 CST
On 26/09/2004 11:16, Jörg Knappen wrote:
>...
>
>Note the fancy >>semi-cyrillic<< shape of the breve between the letters
>b and g -- it is quite typical for this cartographic font. I don't know
>what they do with a true breve (like in Romanian) since this atlas
>transkribes all names into german.
>
>
>
This "semi-cyrillic" breve looks nothing like any of the real Cyrillic
breves I have seen. For a start I have never seen any unsymmetrical
ones. Is this unsymmetrical shape an regular part of this abbreviation?
In that case this might be a distinct character from a breve.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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