Re: italic variants of CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I

From: Gary P. Grosso (gpg@arbortext.com)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 10:31:11 EDT


Thanks to Pierpaolo Bernardi for his reply, which
was sufficient for me to make a response to our
support people.

I would still be very interested in other resources
which describe such glyph variations for Cyrillic
(or other scripts) if anyone knows of any.

At 06:03 PM 6/28/00 +0200, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Gary P. Grosso wrote:
>
> > A user's query has been passed on to me, regarding
> > CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
> > (U+0438 and U+0439). They pointed out that they
> > noticed that when they are italicized, they look like Us
> > instead of backward Ns.
>
>A cursive cyrillic i looks like a cursive latin u.
>A slanted cyrillic i should keep it's "backward n" aspect.
>
>The preference between the two forms varies in different countries.
>In Russian typography both forms are used.
>
>P.

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Gary Grosso
ggrosso@arbortext.com
Arbortext, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI, USA



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