16 Dec 2005 Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The ka1 vs. ka2 question can be solved by a vote, but the next request will probably be to sync ghe.
Actually there already was a proposal to change the ghe. ;-)
Must have been my sixth sense...
However with respect to the letter "ka" the two alternatives we have to choose from are valid only in Bulgaria. All Cyrillic users outside of Bulgaria seam to be striken by the look of "ka" because it is a novelty that they have never seen. No books, no magazines, no newspapers.
It may well be that some uses of high-ka exist in these countries and just go unnoticed, but that's actually irrelevant. My problem is that the high ka does not seem to be _widely and easily recognized_. The primary purpose of ter- is to be easily readable, high-ka fails on that and must be considered buggy.
The current discussion was (more or less) initiated by a proposal by Christian Perrier to use the Terminus font as a standard console font in Debian for all Latin and Cyrillic languages. And then came the objections against the look of "ka". Here are some of the messages during the discussion: [...]
Not that convincing, but paraphrasing part of my previous post, the two most popular styles use low-ka. Lowering now seems inevitable. It'll be the first patch after I reorganize the sources a bit to make character varianths possible and easily maintainable. 16 Dec 2005 Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Let's cite more precisely: I mentioned PCW-BG and C++ reference simply because they were on my desk
I agree that I wasn't precise and I'm sorry for that. [...]
Apology accepted - and I must admit that my impression of the high cyrillic k being a widely accepted and used form was wrong. You had a point in the first place. -- E-gards: Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
