Re: cedilla vs. commaaccent

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Fri Oct 15 1999 - 17:20:18 EDT


At 12:45 PM 15-10-99 -0700, Martin Kotulla wrote:

>There are a bunch of Roman letters that are designed either with a
>cedilla or a comma below, like:
>
>* 0122 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G CEDILLA
>* 0123 LATIN SMALL LETTER G CEDILLA
>
>* 0136 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K CEDILLA
>* 0137 LATIN SMALL LETTER K CEDILLA
>
>* 013B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L CEDILLA
>* 013C LATIN SMALL LETTER L CEDILLA
>
>* 0145 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N CEDILLA
>* 0146 LATIN SMALL LETTER N CEDILLA
>
>* 0156 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R CEDILLA
>* 0157 LATIN SMALL LETTER R CEDILLA
>
>(The PostScript names for those however are Gcommaaccent, gcommaaccent
>etc. according to Adobe.)

All these diacritics should take the comma accent form _not_ the cedilla
form (except where the design of the cedilla is such that it may serve as
either accent -- i.e. an unattached cedilla with a shallow curve). These
characters are misnamed in Unicode due to an early failure to distinguish
between the two accent marks.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks
Vancouver, BC
www.tiro.com
tiro@tiro.com



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