Re: Chuvash numerals

From: Andreas Stötzner (as@signographie.de)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 05:26:36 CDT

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    Am 6. Aug 2007 um 21:46 schrieb Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin:

    > OTOH, font providers could very easily add mappings for U+04D0, U+04D1,
    > U+04D6 and U+04D7 to their glyphs for U+0102, U+0103, U+0114 and
    > U+0115.
    > Surely, the cyrillic breve is slightly different from the Latin one in
    > serif faces but 1. it would be better than a .notdef glyph, 2. Unicode
    > doesn't think this difference is relevant (and rightly so IMHO), and 3.
    > all texts ever printed in Chuvash have latin breves above "e" and "a"
    > along with cyrillic breves above "i", so it would be the expected
    > result.

    Am I right in assuming that you mean the co-called *i-kratkoje* (short
    i) with the notion [cyrillic breves above "i"] –?
    If so, I wonder if this cyrillic-specific diacriticum is to be called
    “breve” at all.
    Though it seems to have the same function as the Latin breve I doubt if
    the shape of the Latin breve is appropriate for Cyrillic.

    There is a naming inconsistency in the Cyrillic Block:
    0419 CYRILLIC … LETTER SHORT I
    040E CYRILLIC … LETTER SHORT U
    but
    04D0 CYRILLIC … LETTER A WITH BREVE
    04D0 CYRILLIC … LETTER A WITH BREVE

    yet in any of these cases the glyphs show the cyrillic form of the
    (breve) with strong terminals.

    A:S

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