Re: Greek Perispomeni - what's the correct symbol?

From: Alex Plantema (alex.plantema@xs4all.nl)
Date: Wed May 05 2010 - 04:13:31 CDT

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    Op woensdag 5 mei 2010 07:52 schreef Kevin Brown:

    > There appears to be some inconsistency about the symbol used for the
    > Greek PERISPOMENI accent mark (U+1FC0).
    >
    > In some cases (eg Arial Unicode MS font as well as the FileFormatInfo
    > and numerous other seemingly authoritative-looking websites) it
    > appears as an inverted breve (c.f. U+0311).
    >
    > However in the unicode.org Code Charts and in some Adobe Pro fonts it
    > is
    > represented by a tilde (c.f. U+0303)
    >
    > Is there a definite right and wrong here or are both marks equally
    > acceptable?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex states that it may look like a circumflex, an inverted breve or a tilde.
    So I suppose theses varying shapes create no problems in the proper context.

    Alex.



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