Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Italic U+453

[Andrey V. P. <pa...@ca...>]

On 29 апреля 2008, Ben Laenen wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Andrey V. Panov wrote:
> > The letter U+453 is specific for Macedonian language, so there is no
> > need to make substitutions for it. Its shape varies. In Macedonian
> > Times font (http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/macedonian.html )
> > it has only one accent: acute.
>
> A person from Macedonia told me on IRC it did have a bar below the acute
> in italic, and gave an example of it, so I assumed (and still assume)
> he knows what he's talking about, so I made the adjustments. The
> picture he referred to was
> http://mojatakirilica.com.mk/images/azbukarakopisno.jpg (at the end of
> the first row).

This is handwritten shapes, they may not coincide with italic.
I have searched for scans of Macedonian texts in italic at Google books and have 
not found such the variant with two accents. Possible variants are: 

Russian style "g" and "g with acute" (the first one is U+433)
"g with macron" for U+433 and "g with acute" for U+453
various styles of U+433 and U+453 based on slanted shape with acute.

> You may be correct that we don't need specific substitution rules for
> it, but I thought it was safer like this since I have no idea what
> people from other languages with Cyrillic script expect when they for
> some reason use that glyph.

U+453 is used only for Macedonian, so it would not interfere with others.

-- 
Andrey V. Panov
panov /@/ canopus.iacp.dvo.ru