Re: Proposal for Combining Up Tack Above

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2011 - 17:15:02 CDT

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    On 6 Apr 2011, at 22:56, Leo Broukhis wrote:

    > There is no mention of this possibility in the proposal nor any justification as to why the proposed character must be represented by a single character.

    Because David sees it as a single fused glyph. I agree with him.

    >> I don't know anything about the proposed character, but somehow I doubt that it's fundamentally a composite.
    >
    > FWIW, a named character sequence can be added for it.

    Ick.

    > Under magnification, it looks like a true tack rather than a combination of a macron and a vertical line. Is that a satisfying condition for encoding?

    Yes.

    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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