Re: Unicode Fonts and Vera

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:43:53PM +0000, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>They lack a lot of glyphs: polish, romanian, esperanto, vietnamese,
>>>>Most of the missing glyphs could easily be added, as glyphs with the
>>>>same diacritics are already present.
>>
>>Yes, if you have a glyph already defined for a character, and you want
>>to add a glyph for the character with a diacritic, then (in my
>>experience) it's not difficult as long as there are other glyphs with
>>the same diacritic. It can be a little more complicated when the
>>diacritics of uppercase letters have are slightly different to those of
>>the corresponding lowercase letters, but not overly so.
> 
> 
> The Vera font has glyphs for most diacritics; the hardest will be the

No it does not - it has barely anything outside iso-8859-15 at all, 
practicly all of latin extended-A, extended-B and extended additional 
are missing.

> drawing of the whole new glyphs schwa, ohorn, uhorn, eng (all in lower and
> upper case of course).
> Special care is needed for the ogonek (there is a page that explains
> that quite well; I don't remember its url, but searching after
> "polish", "ogonek", "acute accent" and "font" should give it).
> and for vietnamese there is the problem of the double accent placement.
>