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Bug 679732 - Inverted question/exclamation marks (¿¡) should be lower than baseline
Inverted question/exclamation marks (¿¡) should be lower than baseline
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: cantarell-fonts
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
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Assigned To: Cantarell fonts maintainer(s)
Cantarell fonts maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-07-11 08:10 UTC by Fabian Greffrath
Modified: 2012-07-14 13:58 UTC
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Description Fabian Greffrath 2012-07-11 08:10:34 UTC 
[Originally reported in Debian by Samuel Hym: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681151>]

The dot of inverted question and exclamation marks (¿ U+00BF and ¡ U+00A1) should be at x-height (they should hang under the baseline, somewhat so that “¿x?” be symmetric with regards to the center of the “x”).

This is how it is rendered in fonts designed by native Spanish speakers, such as
http://www.google.com/webfonts#ReviewPlace:refine/Collection:Buenard
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2012-07-12 19:13:47 UTC 
Addressed in git master. Thank you for the bug report.
Comment 2 Samuel Hym 2012-07-14 13:58:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Addressed in git master. Thank you for the bug report.

Thank you very much!

Cheers
Sam