Thu 13 Apr 2017 06:57:27 PM UTC, original submission:
I searched Wikipedia for diacritics in various phonetic alphabets that didn’t look right in FreeSerif. My findings are listed below. However, phonetic diacritics are productive, and I have certainly missed some combinations. I suggest that you give every phonetic diacritic two anchor points (mark and basemark) and every phonetic letter two anchor points (above and below). I can provide a list of these if that would be helpful.
I also suggest not having two glyphs for a single small capital letter (e.g. sc.u/Usmallcap or sc.y/Ysmallcap): having only one would mean you’d only need to maintain anchor points once per letter instead of twice. The current situation is just asking for bugs.
The following base characters are missing anchor points for diacritics above. For some the diacritics overlap the base, and for others the diacritics are not centered. The uncenterednesses are more obvious in the italic fonts.
- U+0121 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE
- U+0266 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH HOOK
- U+0271 LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH HOOK
- U+028C LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V
- U+028F LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y
- U+0290 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
- U+03B3 GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA
- U+03C4 GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU
- U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA
- U+1D07 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL E
- U+1D0E LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL REVERSED N
- U+1D1C LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL U
- U+1D5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK GAMMA
- U+1D7B LATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE
- U+2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
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Ditto for diacritics below.
- U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
- U+019A LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BAR
- U+01EF LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CARON
- U+025F LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE
- U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G
- U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H
- U+027B LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH HOOK
- U+027F LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
- U+0290 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+029D LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH CROSSED-TAIL
- U+02A9 LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH
- U+03A1 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO
- U+03B3 GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA
- U+03B6 GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA
- U+03BD GREEK SMALL LETTER NU
- U+03C3 GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA
- U+03C4 GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU
- U+03C7 GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI
- U+1D27 GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA
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These combinations of diacritics overlap each other: ⟨ɑ̃̋ŋ̇̓ɑ̟̰i̠̯z̪̰s̺̪s̻̠⟩.
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