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Jonova font family
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Figure out PUA characters that look like accents #4

Open rimas-kudelis opened 1 month ago

rimas-kudelis commented 1 month ago

There are also interesting glyphs assigned to positions U+EFB0-U+EFB5 and U+F004-U+F005. I'll probably have to ask Fotonija people about what they mean and what they were used for.

rimas-kudelis commented 3 weeks ago

I think I have it figured out with the help of some googling and a book that I have:

Glyph Notes
U+EFB0
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Palemonas (page 33):
U+E0C7
DAUGISKAITOS SU UMLIAUTU ŽENKLAS
Approx. translation: PLURAL WITH UMLAUT SIGN
New Athena Unicode (page 11):
U+EC3C or
U+2012 U+0308
contracted biceps = two dots over macron
U+EFB1
image
Palemonas (page 36):
U+E0CC
KIRČIUOTAS ILGASIS SKIEMUO
Approx. translation: STRESSED METRICAL LONG
U+EFB2
image
Potentially same as:
U+23D3
METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
U+EFB3
image
Palemonas (page 33):
U+E0C8
BRŪKŠNYS SU TAŠKU
Approx. translation: MINUS DOT
Listed next to U+2238 DOT MINUS, and looks like its mirrored sibling.
U+EFB4
image
Palemonas (page 36):
E0C9
KIRČIUOTA MORA
Approx. translation: STRESSED METRICAL BREVE
U+EFB5
image
Identical to U+21E7 UPWARDS WHITE ARROW

I think I'm going to remove the characters above.

As for U+F004 and U+F005, these are actually used as components of Latvian letters with cedillas. The glyphs likely should stay, but I'm not so sure regarding their code assignments – I suspect they might be just an artifact of some limitations back in the day. I've already renamed these glyphs to sign.cedilla.commabelow and sign.cedilla.commaturnedabove and should probably turn them into alt forms of U+00B8 CEDILLA and free up the PUA codepoints.