Re: 'caron'

Tristan Mc Leay scripsit:

> So we're all at a loss. What fun!
Mark Davis believes that it was created by someone in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2,
the subcommittee of ISO in charge of character encoding, or in one of
its two working groups, WG2 (Unicode) and WG3 (8-bit encodings), and
that the inventor has probably taken his secret to the grave with him.

Some typographers, at least, hold that a proper hacek is not merely an
inverted circumflex: rather, it is filled in on the left half of the
center line, thus making it look like a tiny check mark.  See Victor
Gaultney's paper "Problems of diacritic design for Latin typefaces" at
http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/ProbsOfDiacDesignLowRes.pdf (warning: 1.4
MB), at the bottom of p. 16.  Gaultney is the designer of the wonderful
Gentium font.

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