From: Leiter Phelix (Phelix.Leiter@ukho.gov.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 05:05:46 CDT
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed.
One further query, John makes reference "SBL BibLit font (due out later
this year) will contain a glyph for this" - do we know what the Unicode
position for this is? IE has the capital H with bar under been accepted
as a Unicode position - or are we simply saying the font will substitute
the combined character when U0048+0331 is used?
Again, many thanks.
Phelix Leiter
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-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of John Hudson
Sent: 07 July 2005 08:03
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Missing capital H from Unicode range (see 1E96)
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Is there a font that contains a glyph for "H" with line under?
The SBL BibLit font (due out later this year) will contain a glyph for
this, since it is
something that has been explicitly requested for semitic
transliteration. I will probably
provide fallback mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning too, in case
users have
diacritic combinations that are not supported in the font using
independent glyphs. Fonts
for scholarly work are likely to be among the first to provide extensive
support for
dynamic and chained mark positioning.
> I created a trivial demo document for testing how Web browsers deal
> with
> this:
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/h.html
> It contains just H̱ in large font size, so that it can be tested
> using different fonts just by changing the browser's default font.
> Internet Explorer 6 usually shows just "H" followed by a rectangle...
One thing to watch out for in this kind of test is dynamic font
switching. Many fonts do
not contain a glyph for U+0331, so systems or applications may switch
fonts to display
this character. This will, of course, mess up any chance of decent
display, because the
mark from one font will not position correctly on the base from another
font. When I
opened your test page in Firefox, the H was displayed using my default
browser font, but
U+0331 was displayed using the Tahoma system font.
John Hudson
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