From: Arns Udovīčė (zordsdavini@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 02:37:39 CDT
Thanks Peter - I removed Verdana.
A.
On 10/28/2010 07:06 AM, Peter Constable wrote:
>
> In the subtitle where “atvīkė̄” occurs, the Verdana font is being used;
> Verdana is left out of the styling on the following line:
>
> <divstyle="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:Verdana, Arial,
> Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Svēkė atvīkė̄ i Vikipedėjė
> <ahref="/wiki/%C5%BDemaitiu_kalba"title="Žemaitiu kalba">žemaitiu
> kalbuo</a>,</div>
>
> <divstyle="padding: 2px 0 0 20px; margin: 0; font-family: Arial,
> Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">encikluopedėjė, katra gal
> redagoutė kuožnos nuorontis.</div>
>
> Verdana does not support U+0304. Arial, however has supported it since
> Windows Vista.
>
> The word “Vielībė̄jė” in the navigation bar appears to be formatted
> with Arial. It displays correctly on Windows.
>
> *From:*unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
> *On Behalf Of *Arns Udovice
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2010 1:09 PM
> *To:* unicode@unicode.org
> *Subject:* Samogitian E with dot above and macron
>
> Hello all,
>
> On 2010-06-30 change became effective for Samogitian
> (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=sgs). There are one
> letter which has many problems with rendering. It is E/e with dot
> above and macron
> (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/bat-smg/0/0f/E_smg.jpg). You
> can see it in:
> http://bat-smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%97rms_poslapis
> atvīk*ė̄* or Vielīb*ė̅*jė. On Linux it is shown (in different shrifts)
> as „ė“ with macron between dot and letter or „ė“ with minus near
> letter (see attachment). On Windows macron is shown as box (or I
> haven't any good shrift). For now all writers use shrift with
> additional letter, ex.
> ftp://ftp.akl.lt/sriftai/Vytis/Naujas_Vytis/Vytis_1.002/ . Simple user
> don't use this letter - writes 'atvīk*ėė*' or 'atvīk*ėn*', even
> 'atvīk*ėi*', but it is against rules.
> This letter was introduced in 1998 in Samogitian writing book
> „Žemaičių rašyba“ (Samogitian writing) (/ISBN/: 998692071X). Latter it
> was used in all Samogitian books. Try to use in IT is complicated.
> What I should to do what this letter come to unicode? As I read in
> http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html it is better to deal
> about it in this thread at first.
>
> Best regards,
> Arns Udovīčė
>
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