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bug #39815: Capital letter YPSILON shape incorrect

Submitter:  Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>
Submitted:  Mon 19 Aug 2013 09:47:08 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  individual character(s) Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  glyph(s) incorrect Status:  Fix posted
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  * 2012-05-03
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Tue 24 Sep 2013 11:55:47 AM UTC, comment #6: 

The shape for lang=Greek is now consistent with Greek standard usage.

Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>
Fri 23 Aug 2013 01:13:24 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi Steve, good to know I've been of help to you, as you can see, I'm not always overburdening you with feature requests, sometimes, I also do my little homework ;)

Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>
Fri 23 Aug 2013 12:41:41 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Hi,

Thanks--I was pretty confused about this.

I know in the past I had looked at such documents, but I remember being emphatically told the angular form was the only form used in real documents.  I also suspect something changed in the standard over the years.

Also, I can see that I incompletely implemented a change: in the Extended range, some of the Upsilons are one style, others are the other.  I think this was like my first year or so with this, and didn't have font features under my belt yet.

I've adopted a solution like that of the other situations where the standard shows a different glyph than the one normally used for Greek printing.  For text identified as Greek, replacements are made of all the Upsilon combinations, so that the palm-tree form is used.  This also involved some mark placement and kerning.


Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Thu 22 Aug 2013 12:09:34 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Ooops... actually I've got to eat my words... see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.30.4076&rep=rep1&type=pdf page 8 paragraph 3.

and http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/letters.html paragraph 3.2 > Upsilon

Script kappa and Ypsilon with hook (that's how it's called) are both standard in Greece, so if we've made the choice of adopting the former as the default, we can't help but adopt the latter as well. It's also more beautiful to me ;) Latin-style Ypsilon can go into the character variant repository.

Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>
Tue 20 Aug 2013 01:55:49 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes it seems you're right.  I have a vague memory of some argument about this, but can't find it now.
It's now more like the Unicode samples.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Tue 20 Aug 2013 01:46:23 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Actually, I've just remarked the shape is incorrect only in the extended Greek range, other the shape of YPSILON is good, that is, is homoglyphic with Latin Y.

Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>
Mon 19 Aug 2013 09:47:08 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello

Capital letter YPSILON should look just like Capital letter Y in the Latin Script. Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypsilon
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf

Rosella Capriotti <rosy58>

 

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