Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

From: Darren Morby (darren.morby@psion.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 11:40:09 EDT


G. Adam Stanislav wrote on October 23:

> Slovak texts always prefer
> the "apostrophe" form for d, t, l, and L. We only use the other form
> (the one that looks like a raised v) when we use typewriters that do not
> have the "apostrophe" form but do have the caron, or when we write by
> hand (it somehow seems easier to write the little v than the
> "apostrophe").

Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our
testers complain that "this character looks wrong" I am justified
in saying "it's a typographical variant" ... at least for these
letters.

Our internal documentation on character sets supported (which I
am responsible for) quotes the Unicode 3.0 book's notes on these
characters. For L, we could note only that its caron appeared
as an apostrophe in the Unicode 3.0 book.

-- Darren --



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