Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - Re: [RFC] fontconfig - greek orthography

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:05:07AM +0200, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
> doesn''t matter much. So it would be best to eliminate these four
> characters from the greek orthography, as shown by the attached
> (trivial) patch to el.orth.
  And of course, at this late hour, it''s not at all unsurprising that
I forgot to attach. Rub, rinse, repeat. ;^)

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--- el.orth~	2002-07-12 21:05:58.000000000 +0000
+++ el.orth	2003-01-26 00:28:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@
 # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #
 # Greek (EL)
-0374-0375
-037a
-037e
 0384-038a
 038c
 038e-03a1

Around 3 o''clock on Jan 26, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
> doesn''t matter much. So it would be best to eliminate these four
> characters from the greek orthography, as shown by the attached
> (trivial) patch to el.orth.
Yes, that looks quite correct.  I would appreciate it if you could file a 
bug on the fontconfig bugzilla ( http://fontconfig.org/bugzilla ); the 
fontconfig CVS is in flux this week and I''m afraid that if
it''s not in
bugzilla, I''ll forget to fix this.

-keith

Hello,

  Now that, with the new releases of RedHat, fontconfig is starting to
be used by a lot of people, a problem has been reported with regard to
recognising fonts as being suitable for the greek language. In
particular, it seems that fontconfig fails to accept the majority of
fonts as being adequate for this language.

  It seems that the problem is caused by the inclusion of four
reduntant characters in the greek orthography information:

	  0374	     GREEK NUMERAL SIGN
	  0375	     GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN
	  037A	     GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
	  037E	     GREEK QUESTION MARK

  Out of those, the first two are only needed for greek numerals,
sheldom used today; the third is only needed for ancient Greek, and
the fourth is considered to be equivalent with 003B (semicolon), so it
doesn''t matter much. So it would be best to eliminate these four
characters from the greek orthography, as shown by the attached
(trivial) patch to el.orth.

  This problem was first reported by Sarantis Paskalis
<sarantis@cnl.di.uoa.gr>. I observed it myself as well, so I took the
liberty to report it here. Please "Reply to All", as I am not
subscribed in this list.

Thanks,
Vasilis

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