Gaultney is in favour of, is designing an acute Moment with fonts like Palatino Linotype and which At any rate, thisĪn alternative solution, with is happening at the Solution, though, is language-specific fonts and Precomposed or not, and since the characters thatĪcute combines with in Polish, Greek, and Westernĭo not overlap much (though Polish does have ó), this usually comes out in the wash a more general Glyphs, whether the underlying Unicode encoding is The codepoints, accomodate to the language. Is a classic Serbian Italics situation, and is resolved by having the glyphs, not
The Polish situation had led to Adam Twardoch advocating that the kreska (the Polish acute) be consideredĭistinct from the Western acute but of course, this Steep in Western Europe as well until the early 20th To Western European: the acute and grave were consistently 7), this makes Greek and Polish archaic relative (As Victor Gaultney discusses in his Master's thesis (p. The same holds for the acute as used in Polish orĬzech (§7.7). Is steeper than it is for Western European languages The Unicode standard notes (§7.2) that the acute as used in Greek typography Is normal behaviour for multiple diacritics.) (The stacking of the acute, grave and-rarely-theĬircumflex over the diaeresis, on the other hand,
Is behaviour specific to Greek but this does notĪlter the fact that the one codepoint covers theĭiacritic as used in Greek, French, Polish, or Russian. Moving to the right rather than above the other diacritic, The titlecase combination of acutes and graves with Greek, this holds for grave, acute, and diaeresis. That looks identical-even though it may have differentįunctions from script to script or language to language-then So if two scripts have a diacritic in common They are encoded by shape, not by semantics or by The Unicode policy with diacritics in general is that U+0300 Combining Grave Accent U+0301 Combining Acute Accent U+0308 Combining Diaeresis
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