GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 760268
Draw and integrate alternate forms for several Cyrillic glyphs for Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Last modified: 2018-03-26 14:19:49 UTC
https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/adobe-cyrillic-charsets/adobe-cyrillic-2.html notes that those three languages require alternate forms for the following letters (quotation): U+0409 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+041B CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0431 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Serbian and Macedonian U+0432 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0433 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE: Italic style requires alternate form for Serbian and Macedonian. Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE: Italic style requires alternate form for Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+436 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0438 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+043A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+043B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+043F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE: Italic style requires alternate form for Serbian and Macedonian. Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0442 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE: Italic style requires alternate form for Serbian and Macedonian. Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0446 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0448 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0449 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+044A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+044B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+044C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+044E CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0453 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+0459 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+045A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+045C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE: Upright and italic styles requires alternate form for Bulgarian U+045D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE: Upright style requires alternate form for Bulgarian
Closing for now, as these alternates may not be necessary for an oblique as opposed to a true italic. May reopen depending on the future direction of Cantarell.
Some of these alternates are required for upright (and thus also for oblique). For example, in upright, U+0431 б should look different in Serbian than in Russian.
Woops :D
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