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Combining Cyrillic Breve unicode?
Posted by Ramiro Espinoza in
7 Jul 2011 — 10:56am
7 Jul 2011 — 10:56am
Hi there,
Since cyrillic breve has a design usually different to latin breve accent I would like to know if you make the letter 'I-Breve' making a unique breve on top or if the proper way would be to generate a non spacing unicoded glyph and then to create a component on top of the 'I'.
Problem is... I am not sure what is the unicode for 'combining cyrillic breve'. I only found "A67C" (combining cyrillic Kavyka) but I think it is not the same...
Or shall I make a unique tweaked breve on top of the cyrillic 'I' (/afii10027)? What is the usual approach in cyrillic fonts?
Thanks in advance.
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7 Jul 2011 — 6:48pm
There is a private use section of the unicode just for such issues.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf
Just out of curiosity what does a cyrillic breve look like. How is it different from the other breve.
7 Jul 2011 — 7:29pm
I'd create a nonspacing glyph and simply name it 'uni0306.cyr'. You can use it as a component when constructing cyrillic I-breve, and you could make it accessible via the glyphs palette by including 'sub uni0306 by uni0306.cyr' in your 'aalt' feature (or perhaps in your 'locl' feature).
André
8 Jul 2011 — 4:58am