Re: ML4 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

Isaac Penzev scripsit:

> > > And I would recommend to substitute t-comma-below with t-cedilla
> > > _??_, because t-comma-below has a bit dubious status (nobody knows
> > > for sure if they are the same or not).
> >
> > Very good point, thanks. Cedillas not being available on all the
> > consonants I might like them on, I was using comma-below as a quick fix,
> > but noticed that some applications mangle them with higher frequency
> > than other bits of unicode.
>
> John Cowan may enlighten us Re this matter, but I'm afraid
> t-with-comma-below is not treated well in the present state of Unicoded
> applications...
Here's the story.  In Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2), which was meant to cover both
Turkish and Romanian (among other languages), the Romanian s with comma
below was merged into the Turkish s with cedilla, and as a consequence
the Romanian t with comma below became the t with cedilla, a character
not otherwise used (as far as anyone knows).

In the event, Turkish ended up using Latin-5 (ISO 8859-9) instead, a
modified Latin-1 that replaced the Icelandic-specific characters with
Turkish-specific ones, so the unification was pointless but official.

In Unicode versions up to 2.1, this unification was maintained, but in
Unicode 3.0, the Romanian characters were added.  The bogus t with cedilla
could not be removed, of course, due to the Unicode stability policies.

> Why? I use Arial Unicode MS (here at the office), and the word looks
> perfect!
Note that AUMS is a Unicode 2.1 font and is not being maintained.  You
might want to look at Code2000; in the realm of Latin and Greek character,
Gentium is also an excellent font (Cyrillic coming soon).

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