The alternative would be to encode a separate CYRILLIC COMBINING "LUNAR" BREVE for the case of the initial /j/, or to encode that letter /j/ specifically.
However in your examples, that letter /j/ only occurs in the word initial position where phonology transforms the long /i/ into /j/. Contextually you can still make the difference even if the glyphs are not contrasted. But may be you have examples showing that letter /j/ in a non-initial position (at start of a syllable, i.e. after a vowel) or at end of words (also after a vowel) where such contextual guess is not easy to decide between /j/ and long /i/. It would be interesting to have details where krafka is expected and where a breve is expected, and where they can be confusing. If you cannot find such example then a simple rendering rule would be to use the lunar form of the breve in syllable start position (over и at start of a word, or over и after another vowel), and the krafka form (with both arms terminated by a rounded bowl) in all other positions (over и in the middle of a syllable after a consonnant... or also over и at end of word unles you also need the distinction there between a final long /i/ and a final /j/?), 2014-07-02 19:34 GMT+02:00 Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr>: > ZWNJ is not supposed to join or disjoin combing diacritics from a base > letter (even if it has such limited use in Indic scripts, but only between > letters to prevent clusters with subjoined letters), > > CGJ would be better used to prevent canonical compositions but it won't > normally give a distinctive semantic. > > It looks like you have a case where you would need to encode a variant of > the base letter и (with a variant selector). The rendering may be still > fuzzy as there's no such variant registered for that CYRILIC LETTER I. > > Probably, given that you have fonts making a specific contrast for и + > U+306, adding a CGJ in the middle would do the trick if it is only to > prevent the canonically equivalent composition which could occur in many > places. > > > > 2014-07-02 18:11 GMT+02:00 Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com>: > >> Here >> >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Contrastive_use_of_kratka_and_breve.JPG >> is an example of й and и + U+0306 COMBINING BREVE used contrastively (/j/ >> vs short /i/) thanks to a difference in typographic style of Cyrillic breve >> (kratka) and regular breve. >> For me in Win7 using и + U+0306 results in a contrast, but given that и + >> U+0306 is a canonical decomposition of й and a renderer is allowed, if not >> encouraged, to use the glyph for й every time it sees и + U+0306, what is >> the right (portable) way to do that? Would и + ZWNJ + U+0306 work? Should >> it? >> >> I'd like to reply to >> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%92%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4#.D0.9E_.D0.BA.D1.80.D0.B0.D1.82.D0.BA.D0.B5_.D0.B8_.D0.B1.D1.80.D0.B5.D0.B2.D0.B8.D1.81.D0.B5 >> >> Thanks, >> Leo >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> Unicode@unicode.org >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> >> >
_______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
