Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

From: Geoffrey Waigh (anzu@home.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 15:54:22 EDT


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Morby wrote:

> In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t with
> caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing apostrophe
> (d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note:
>
> the form using apostrophe is preferred in typesetting
>
> However, the Latin capital letter L with caron (U+013D) is shown with an
> apostrophe (L') but no note. The Latin capital letters D and T with caron
> (U+010E, U+0164) show proper carons and notes that the preferred form is
> with a caron (hacek).
>
> Which is the preferred form, L with an actual caron or L with an apostrophe?
> And should there not be a note on capital L like there is on small l? (The
> note on small l does not say that it applies to capital L also.)
>

I don't remember the answer but I vaguely recall Agfa consulting a
reference when they made the original Unicode bitmap fonts for Teklogix.

How have things been going at Teklogix/Psion? I haven't been in touch
with anyone there since Lee left.

Geoffrey



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