- From: Eduardo Tabacman <eduardot@dessci.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:33:13 -0700
- To: www-math@w3.org
> I think MathML 2 is in agreement with > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf > > 3C6: straight phi GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI > 3D5: cursive phi GREEK PHI SYMBOL Well, not quite. The glyph for 3C6 in http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PER-MathML2-20030804/003.html is the straight one, and the names given for it in http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PER-MathML2-20030804/bycodes.html are "phiv, varphi" (for 3D5: 'loopy' glyph, names: "phi, straightphi") These glyphs are reversed from the Unicode chart above. Much as I disagree with the explanation of the swapping given in the Unicode docs, it seems to me that the glyphs in the MathML documentation should be swapped to agree with Unicode, and be more in line with the names. It is still awkward that the name "phi" would correspond to a character outside the run of the other small greek letters; if possible, I think it should be reassigned to 3C6. Eduardo.
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