- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:32:53 -0700
- To: Neil Soiffer <Neils@dessci.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
Neil Soiffer wrote: > That even sort of applies if you use the Unicode value for the > character. Because Unicode changed the glyph associated with the code, > any font that was developed and not updated before that change has the > wrong character at the &phi and &phiv positions. I'm sorry. What happened?! This makes no sense at all. Unicode does not define *any* glyphs for *any* characters, and never has. It maps abstract characters to code points. That's all. What glyph is used for those characters is a font choice. Unicode cannot change a glyph becuase it never assigned a glyph in the first place. I suppose different printings of various books may use different fonts, but this is in no way normative. > So, depending upon the > font, the glyph for 3c5 may be a GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (an "open" curly > phi) or GREEK PHI SYMBOL (a "straight" phi). See [7] for more details. > Possibly, but none of this changes the fact that υ is the Greek small letter upsilon. I suppose you meant φ ? In Unicode that's the small Greek letter phi, whatever glyph is assigned. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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