SIL updated fonts: Charis SIL and Doulos SIL

Thu Feb 8 20:43:23 UTC 2007

FYI.

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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:21:46 -0600
From: Lorna_Priest at sil.org
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Subject: SIL updated fonts: Charis SIL and Doulos SIL

SIL International has just released new versions of Charis SIL (
http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont) and Doulos SIL (
http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont). These fonts have been updated to
include Latin and Cyrillic characters which were added to Unicode 5.0. For
a fairly complete listing of the changes, see end of message (and download
page for each font).

To go with the updated fonts, we have also updated:

- SIL PUA to Unicode 5.0 Mapping (
http://scripts.sil.org/MappingFiles#SILPUAtoUnicode). If you've used SIL
PUA codepoints you will definitely want to run this file on your data!
Your data will work better :-)
- IPA Unicode 1.1 Keyman Keyboard (http://scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboard)
This keyboard is up-to-date for Unicode 5.0. We've also added a number of
characters to the keyboard and in the documentation we've added an IPA
number chart which allows you to look up the IPA number, the Unicode
Scalar value and the IPA Phonetic Description.

Lorna
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Lorna Priest

Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7534
http://scripts.sil.org
email: <lorna_priest at sil.org>

Changes in Doulos SIL and Charis SIL

New features:
Open o alternate (affects: U+1D97 , U+1D53 , U+1D10 , U+0186 , U+0254 )
Chinantec tones (affects: U+02C8  MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE, U+02C9
MODIFIER LETTER MACRON, U+02CA  MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT, U+02CB
MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
9-level pitches (affects: U+F1F1, U+F1F2, U+F1F3, U+F1F4, U+F1F5, U+F1F6,
U+F1F7, U+F1F8, U+F1F9, U+0020  SPACE) See documentation for options

Design changes:
Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (new for OT)
Placement of ogonek on U and u corrected.
U+02BE  MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING and U+02BF  MODIFIER LETTER LEFT
HALF RING (added attachment points)
U+031A  COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE (removed attachment point)
U+04AA  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER (direction of hook
corrected)
U+04AB  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER (direction of hook
corrected)
U+0427  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE (character has been widened)
U+04B6  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH DESCENDER (character has been
widened)
U+04B8  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH VERTICAL STROKE (character has
been widened)
U+04CB  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KHAKASSIAN CHE (character has been
widened)
U+04F4  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE WITH DIAERESIS (character has been
widened)
U+03B2  GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA (added serifs)
U+1D66  GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BETA (added serifs)
U+1D5D  MODIFIER LETTER SMALL BETA (added serifs)
U+F1E7  MODIFIER LETTER LOW CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (shifted up)
U+F1E8  MODIFIER LETTER LOW CARON (shifted up)
made underlining of text thicker and shifted down
Modifier apostrophe alternates feature: added U+F26A
Added:
Latin and Cyrillic Unicode 5.0 characters added and if they were already
in SIL's corporate PUA they are double-encoded.
U+2053
U+211F
U+2123
U+2308
U+2309
U+2423
U+FE20..U+FE23 (positioning of these may not be perfect, use of U+0361
COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE and U+0360  COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE is
preferred)
PUA characters:
F17B COMBINING ALMOST EQUAL TO BELOW
F1F1 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH ONE
F1F2 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH TWO
F1F3 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH THREE
F1F4 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH FOUR
F1F5 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH FIVE
F1F6 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH SIX
F1F7 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH SEVEN
F1F8 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH EIGHT
F1F9 MODIFIER LETTER PITCH NINE
F266 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
F267 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT
F268 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
F269 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND HOOK
F26A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO
Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango

Changes in Charis SIL only

Changed features:
Added U+0493  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE, U+F327  CYRILLIC
SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER and U+04FB  CYRILLIC SMALL
LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK to â€œSlant italic specialsâ€

Design changes:
Shifted position (up) of non-spacing diacritics
U+023C  LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE
U+1D09  LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I (changed baseline position)
U+1D3D  MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL OU (changed attachment point)
U+03B1  GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA, U+03B2  GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA, U+03B8
GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA and U+03C3  GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA (made italic
in the italic and bold/italic faces)
Improved hinting for U+0447  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE CYRILLIC SMALL
LETTER CHE and derivatives
Minor changes to design of U+0414  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE, U+0434
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE, U+041B  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL, and U+043B
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL.
Changed design of some of the Cyrillic italics
U+0433  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
U+0491  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN
U+0493  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE
U+04FB  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK
U+F327  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
U+04A7  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+04B5  CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE TE TSE
U+0495  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK