Sun 11 Sep 2011 11:26:25 AM UTC, comment #1:
There is more discussion of this issue.
It seems that the forms with a comma below are common in Latvian, and that the Unicode names with "cedilla" are rather unfortunate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla
This also applies to
"g", "k", "l", "n", and "r"
I'm not sure if there is anything to be done about this in the font. It is possible to do a language-specific script replacement, but then again, maybe the right thing is to compose these letters with combining diacriticals.
comma below: u+0326 K̦, m̦, l̦, r̦, n̦
cedilla: u+0327 Ķ, m̧, ļ, ŗ, ņ
Works for all letters except g (where would you put a cedilla?)
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Sun 20 Apr 2008 01:34:13 PM UTC, original submission:
This is indeed confusing, and maybe controversial.
The Unicode sample at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf
shows a comma, although it indicates that it is conceptually composed of a K and a diacritical.
See also http://diacritics.typo.cz/index.php?id=9
There are several other such letters, that are nominally composed with cedilla, but I think typographically always have a comma below (this is reflected by their PostScript names, too).
I spent some time on this, and think what is now in CVS is correct.
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Latin letters K with cedilla (U+136-137) have comma below diacritical mark instead of cedilla.
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