Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote: >>> In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably >>> the best known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are >>> indistinguishable in italics. >> >> That is a fault of the font. > > No, the font does what it's supposed to, which is to give the correct > rendering of the letter 'a' for use in ordinary text. The problem is > in Unicode's unification of the generic letter a with the IPA letter > 'a', which has a restricted glyph range, and, as we now find out, must > be treated differently when styles are applied.
I think Michael was finding fault, not with the italicizing of "a" (U+0061) in fonts, but with that of "ɑ" (U+0251), a much less common letter, one for which I can't find usage other than in IPA, which *normally* wouldn't be italicized. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell
