From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 01:39:03 CST
Alec Coupe wrote:
> A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I should have been more
> precise in the original posting and asked why all designers of
> unicode-complaint IPA fonts, whose principal application is allegedly
> phonetics, follow the tradition of allowing LATIN SMALL LETTER
> A (U+0061) to change to LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251) when it's
> italicized.
What are these fonts? I can understand that there may be typeface families that happen to
include IPA characters, but which are not primarily intended for use with phonetics and so
follow typical typographic conventions. I'm surprised to hear that this is also true of
fonts 'whose principal application is allegedly phonetics'.
John Hudson
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